Clean Energy City Patterns
Clean energy urban design from around the world and in Jinan represent a diverse array of built forms.
There are many combinations of clean energy design characteristics that can support better neighborhood
energy performance, but these variations can be represented with the
six basic prototypes highlighted below.
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Walk Up Slab Enclaves
Consist of stacked flats arranged in linear 4-6 story buildings grouped into more or less private enclaves surrounded by city streets lined with shops and services. -
Small Perimeter Blocks
Pedestrian oriented development with relatively small blocks of up to 80 meters by side. -
Urban Grid Mixes
Consist of rectilinear public streets and private density housing types may be built within the blocks -
High Density Perimeter Blocks
Consist of 8-10 story or even taller buildings grouped around the edges of an urban-scale block leaving a space in the middle. -
Urban Sponges
A pedestrian environment that mixes living with working, production, and commerce in a complex but highly permeable urban form of built and open spaces - like a sponge. -
Tower Networks
This prototype is a newly emerging high-rise form in which the tower elements are not freestanding, but connected to one another at the lower levels and high in the air, forming a network.
