The Significance of Maintenance: the Social and Technological Feature of Residential Green Building
Date Issued
2016
Date
2016
Author(s)
Huang, Yu-Hsiang
Abstract
This paper aims to illuminate both the difficulty of and the key point to building maintenance in the practice field of residential green building in Taiwan, and this paper treats the maintenance of the green building system as a process in which society, technique and users interweave with one another. The social factor points to the policies and the laws concerning building construction, the residential spaces and the features of commodities. It affects the usage of green building construction technology, the normative regulation for building constructors, and the mechanism of building maintenance among dwellers. The technical factor refers to the technical features of variegated green technology, which not only should be responsive to the policies, but also has an effect on the actors, including how the companies design and construct buildings, and dwellers’ agency. The concepts of Interpretive Flexibility from Social Construction of technology Theory (SCOT) and boundary object from Social World Theory shed us a new light to understand how buildings maintenance is possible under the intertwining factors. In practical world, the disputes over technology—the faults produced in the process of design or construction, the unpredictability of the technology—will keep emerging such that implementing new technology seems impossible. Fortunately, the case of H Building Company is a silver lining, proffering another alternative. After finishing the construction, H Building Company keeps highly involved in how dwellers’ maintain their building, and re-identifies technological problems, resulting in dwellers’ gestalt switch on the cognition of technology—that green building technology is now an issue of sustaining a symbiotic relationship with nature in an ecosystem but no longer mere the concept in architectural landscape. As a result, caterpillars, algae, aphids and mosquitos which were once claimed potential threat to technology are now used as a means to justify the indispensability of upgrading new technology on the one hand, and to prove the success of the gestalt switch on the cognition of technology on the other hand, enabling the green technology carried out as H Building Company originally planned.
Subjects
residential green building
building maintenance
architecture geography
SCOT
boundary object
SDGs
Type
thesis
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