Post Occupancy Evaluation with Green Facades of Elementary and Junior High Schools in the Yilan Area

Abstract:

This study has focused on post occupancy evaluation of green facade for elementary school classroom in Taiwan to appreciate the actual situations and usage problems for green facades. This study has chosen three schools for case study. Based on field measurement, and user interview and user questionnaire, they are being used to clarify the environment improvement contributed by green facade establishment and its effectiveness of environment education of each case. This study also found usage and maintenance and management problems derived from green facade installed. Results show that the effectiveness of green facades on the classroom indoor environment improvement is partial significant, on the environment education is not as good as anticipated and on the maintenance and management have many problems and some unexpected negative effects. According to the above results, this study proposes relative planning and designing suggestions as a reference for schools that are willing to have green facades establishment in the future.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 450-451)
• Pages: 1633-1636
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.450-451.1633
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Hung Ren Hsieh, Fang Jyun Yeh
• Keywords: Green Facade, Post Occupancy Evaluation, Sustainable Campus, Taiwan, Yilan

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