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Sustainable Design

Sustainable Design . Group 4 Becca Bogdan Ines Aline Ilektra Kiriakos. Problem Description. Area: Watergraafsmeer WATERgraafsmeer project: 3 Tables The Design Table Improving research by design workshops Specific problem: Storm-water management technical solutions

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Sustainable Design

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  1. Sustainable Design Group 4 Becca Bogdan Ines Aline Ilektra Kiriakos

  2. Problem Description • Area: Watergraafsmeer • WATERgraafsmeer project: 3 Tables • The Design Table • Improving research by design workshops • Specific problem: Storm-water management • technical solutions • policy solutions • methods to assure stakeholders’ support

  3. Research Question Which water sensitive urban design solutions for storm-water management can be incorporated into WATERgraafasmeer’s projects using the research by design methodology?

  4. Student Individual result Group Result Ultimate result Theoretically and practically supported recommendations about how the workshops should be conducted, who should be invited, and how they can be evaluated Methodological approaches for conducting integrated planning Becca Conceptualizing a strategy to generate a positive and proactive attitude among stakeholders Ines Increased knowledge and stakeholders support about Innovative storm water management solutions Recommendations of policies aimed at mitigating the issue and encouraging private sector involvement Insights about how to align community, media, developers, and policy makers for introducing stormwater management techniques Bogdan A list of methods which can be used in Watergraafsmeer urban area to upgrade the quality of stormwater, of biodiversity and environment as a whole Aline Develop a plan for sustainable space (either individual or district) heating combined with rainwater harvesting comprising ground source heat pumps, permeable paving and underground rainwater storage Insights about existing stormwater techniques and suggestions for making them more sustainable Electra Seek collaboration with suggested forefront research institutes Investigation of the additional energy savings & benefits coming from the green roofs in comparison with the conventional ones Kiriakos

  5. Becca: Understanding and using Research by Design • Increased stakeholder support of potential storm-water management policies • Results from incorporation of shared knowledge via Research by Design workshops • Effective workshop design is based off of theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge

  6. Bogdan: A Policy Perspective International literature review of information on how to tackle storm-water issues from both a technical and policy-standpoint Description of local policies best practices in similar areas pertaining to the storm-water management Proposal to consider the introduction of private partnerships in managing some of the related issues and the conducting of a CBA for these purposes

  7. Ines: Awareness of water sensitive urban design • Insights about stakeholders’ knowledge and attitudes toward needed changes • Increasing the transfer/sharing of knowledge • Letting people convince themselves about the benefits of the demonstrated technologies

  8. Aline: Upgrading environmental quality and biodiversity • A detailed lists of methods descriptions that can be used in Watergraafsmeer urban area to: • Upgrade the quality of storm-water • Improve environmental quality • Enhance biodiversity

  9. Ilektra: Storm-water management and energy recycling Suggested Actions • 1. Give focus on Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHPs)- Tested potential to be combined with underground rainwater reservoirs • 2. Study permeable paving with incorporated GSHPs – Good evidences at experimental level • 3. Collaborate with suggested institutes and develop innovative research on the field of energy & rainwater recycle Ultimate result • An integrated plan for sustainable (district or individual) space heating comprising permeable pavements, underground rainwater storage & GSHPs

  10. Kiriakos: Technical Matters Green roofs reduce - through isolation - the energy use needed for heating and cooling the building The energy savings are higher for non isolated houses and less for the insulated ones. The bigger the area of construction, the better the results and the higher the costs. Additional benefits comes out from the retention of water

  11. Limitations • Timing • Of the actual workshops • With the professionals involved in the project • Of receiving information about previous workshops • Of meetings about planning the upcoming workshops • Of some technologies developed only on experimental level • Information • Mostly in Dutch (existing policies, DRO material)

  12. Potential Improvements • Longer time frame (10 weeks is does not fit with real-world project developments) • More focused subjects (our client really didn’t know what they wanted) • More coherence between the assignment part of the project and the needs of the actual case • More pre-scheduled meetings with coordinators (or other ways to ensure face-time) • Basics about the case itself (Terms ofReference alike) should be prepared in advance

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