As a main place for student activities on campus, outdoor spaces have positive impacts on students’ physical and mental health. Namely, outdoor heat and comfort are of great significance to improve activity quality. Here, four unique outdoor spaces were studied to explore the varying effects on human thermal comfort during hot-summer and cold-winter periods. Distinct outdoor spaces (fully open, semi-open, semi-enclosed, and fully enclosed areas) from the southern campus of Anhui Jianzhu University were chosen. The PET was used as a metric for measuring thermal comfort and analyzing correlated spatiotemporal distributions. The results showed that outdoor thermal comfort was derived from multiple factors, including vegetation, underlying surface materials, building presence, and wind-heat environment. Notably, high correlations between Tmrt and thermal comfort were revealed, where such temperatures of places with trees or building shade were low; thus, PET was low. Further, Ws showed a significantly negative correlation with PET. Of the four outdoor space forms, the fully enclosed location had the lowest thermal comfort level, while the semi-enclosed spaces showed the highest level of body comfort. Therefore, semi-enclosed space (U-shaped) is recommended in campus planning and construction. Accordingly, an improved strategy was proposed based on experimental transformation for fully enclosed spaces. The thermal comfort after optimization was simulated to provide references for outdoor space thermal comfort improvement during seasonal extremes.

Green buildings and sustainable design have become the points architects are concerned about. At the same time, with the design and construction of architectural projects becoming more and more complicated, Building Information Modeling (BIM) plays a more important role in the architectural process of aiming to create green buildings and high performance buildings. It can create collaboration between other disciplines that has not occurred in traditional design before. This paper will focus on several case studies, which will be presented and analyzed to offer specific evidence in practice that BIM is the key to realizing sustainable architectural development.

Green buildings and sustainable design have become the points architects are concerned about. At the same time, a lack of collaboration with other design disciplines is a problem encountered by many architecture designers. In such a situation, some architects promote a method of integrated design, which can fix the gap in interdisciplinary collaboration in the process of construction and operation of building. In this article, the authors introduced the integrated design and analyzed it in architectural education as well as provide case studies to offer specific evidence.

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With my country’s vigorous advancement of the construction of sponge cities, the research on the sponge landscape design of primary school campuses has become a hot spot. This paper takes Hefei Experimental School as an example, through the investigation of the current situation of the school landscape, using BIM technology to assist modelling, summarizes the shortcomings of the campus landscape and proposes a sponge landscape design strategy. With Revit and Vectorworks2019 as the main tools and platforms, under the support of the whole process of BIM technology, according to the current situation of the primary school campus and the behaviour characteristics of the primary school students, a design plan for the sponge landscape of Hefei Experimental School is proposed, showing that BIM technology is fully used in the sponge landscape design of the primary school campus, and put forward deficiencies and prospects.