Study on Integrating Public Arts with Green Building Certifications
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Hsueh, Tsu-Ming
Abstract
The “Culture and Arts Reward Act” announced in 1992 by the Taiwanese government regulates that all public buildings should set aside at least 1% of the building construction cost for public art for landscape purposes. The “Regulations Governing the Installation of Public Artwork” announced in 1998 further increases the importance, number and budgets of public art. To promote the above act and regulations, the Executive Yuan announced the “Eco-city Green Building Program” in 2008, which requires all public building projects with a building construction cost above $50 million NTD to acquire an EEWH (i.e., Taiwanese green building standard) certificate before the closure of the project. In view of the high cost of public art, it would be worth studying the role of public art in achieving a sustainable environment, in getting higher EEWH scores, in making budgets effective, and in cutting waste. This research studied the public-art-related scores in EEWH and LEED (i.e., the widely recognized American green building standard), and found that roughly 30% of the total scores in green building standards are related to public art. A questionnaire survey with collected domestic and foreign public art cases which incorporated sustainability concept was conducted for the visual artists on the Ministry of Culture (MOC) expert list, architects, civil engineers, government officials and the public. With the experience of the experts and the perception of the public, inappropriate public art cases would be excluded, leaving those with agreeable public art value and potential of getting green building scores. After analyzing the remaining public art cases, they were classified into six categories that could be integrated with green building certification. The six categories are energy generation system, energy-saving building envelope, space greening, rest space, lighting equipment, and transport facilities. It is hoped that future public art design could take the output of this research into account to enhance the sustainability of the artwork and assist the corresponding building in the acquisition of green building certificate. In recent years, the concepts of environmental sustainability, energy saving and carbon reduction have become popular around the world. In order to keep up with the trend, this research would produce a designer’s reference manual and a user interface to incorporate green building certification in public art design. Both the designer’s reference manual and the user interface provide the basic green building design concepts and could serve as nice tools for people in public art design. Hopefully, with this research as a stepping stone, the government will soon release official and standard indicators to evaluate public art in sustainable environment and to enhance its practicability.
Subjects
public art
green building certification
green building certificate
sustainable environment
energy saving
carbon reduction
SDGs
Type
thesis
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