Welcome to my diploma project

Picture by: Wayne Haag

   I have been created this blog in order to talk about my end-study project. In China for one year, I will stay here for another 6 months in order to complete my diploma project. But now let me introduce my subject.

Subject
   In the quick urbanization process of China nowadays (Urbanization rate today: 37% / 50% in 2050), how and where does people will live and in which city configuration? For many years the Chinese government have been used to erased buildings or district in order build brand new one with more housing capabilities and most of time providing a better way of life. But after years different problems come out. First of all it seems that a large part of the population cannot afford accomodation because the property speculation is growing faster than people way of life and their purchasing power. Even if the government is building more and more buildings in order to turn the demand low down than the offer, housing price keep going up. In this context the main problem is the quality of the construction espacially regarding the energy consumption. A chinese housing consumes 2 to 3 times more energies than developped countries because they are not built following energetic standards and even today these standard are rarely  applied.  Even if the gouvernemt is developing norms to reduce living area energy consumption, the way of building is very hard to change for many reasons: 
 - Province do not apply or do not have the ability to apply these norms.
 - Some sectors as collective heating are still manage by the government and suffer of low cost rate which do not low down the consumption. Here the country scale is important, indeed if changement are needed, it have to be deep one which is very hard to apply at this hudge scale of country. 
- The Chinese sustainable material market is just borning and green technologies take time to be adopted by all actors in the building sectors.

Architecture industrialization
    This is in this way that I focussed on the industrialization of architecture. Indeed the industrial way of producing bring quality and permit to reduce the producing cost. The main point is that you can concentrate talents and knowledge in order to developped energy efficient product at lower price with better quality. Then you can produce full of imputs product avoiding the chinese problem of provinces and knowledge transmission.