The Common Language of Sustainable Architecture in Creating New Architectural Spaces (original) (raw)

Sustainability in architecture between the past and the future

From the end of the last century, the environment became the chief of all research topics and studies in different fields. Architecture, for example, is one of these fields and a lot of titles were born in architecture to connect between architecture and environment such as, green architecture, sustainable architecture and environmental design. All of these titles are moving around the same orbit which is how to create a friendship between the built environment and the natural environment. Sustainable architecture, which is the topic of this research, seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings by enhancing efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, and development space. If we go back to the traditional architecture, we will find many examples that achieved sustainability with traditional tools and tried to realize a friendship with the natural environment. So, sustainability isn't a recent idea but it was born in traditional architecture. So the research will demonstrate sustainability in traditional and modern architecture and discuss the difference in application of sustainability in architecture between past and present. The research will focus on Islamic architecture which is simultaneously an example of traditional architecture and it is a paradigm of sustainable architecture, starting from the urban planning scale reaching to the scale of building. The sustainability realization in the urban planning scale can be shown in the compact urban tissue and narrow anfractuous streets. The sustainability recognition in the building scale can be shown in the Islamic building in some elements such as, building material, proportions of openings, using courts, roofing and other environmental treatments that intend to diminish the thermal load. In addition, the research will spot the light on recent sustainable architecture and introduce some examples which illustrate using new technology in achieving sustainability The research will be summarized as follow: • Sustainable development • Sustainable architecture • Sustainability in Islamic Architecture • Sustainability in contemporary Architecture • Analytical case studies and applied projects

Need for Sustainable Architecture

The paper detailed the concept of sustainable architectural design that has come to the forefront in the last 20 years. At the beginning of the environmental revolution damage to the natural system became a main concern. This concept recognizes that human civilization is an integral part of the natural world and that nature must be preserved and perpetuated if the human community itself is to survive. However terms such as sustainability or sustainable development became more often mentioned only during the last decade, due to scientific evidence that excessive exploitation of natural resources in parallel to the ever-growing polluting agents would lead to irreversible environmental destruction. By providing an awareness of the environment, values are taught that are necessary for the protection of the environment .From the study relating to Sustainable architecture and its relation to sustainable development, this paper identifies the principles of sustainable architecture and planning and clarifies the role of the public and professionals in reducing the impact of buildings on the environment.

A Reflection on the Sustainable Architecture Project

Urban Studies and Public Administration

Environment, ecosystem, harmful emissions, citizens’ health, energy consumption, sustainable development. It is a non-exhaustive list of terms that are part of our daily life and that show how much responsibility the human imprint has today on the state of health of the planet. Despite the fact that they have been deadlines for some decades, at the head of all the programmatic statements on development, issued by international bodies and governments, the situation does not seem to improve. We are, indeed, called to change our lifestyle and our well-being patterns which are causing an exaggerated and ever-increasing waste of energy and resources, just as the overall impact of the human species on natural systems continues to grow (De Capua, 2008). In recent years everything that has to do with architectural design, from the choices of materials to the technologies used, has had to deal with the term sustainability, whose meaning, despite trying to place it in a unique defining appara...

Aspect of Sustainable Development in Contemporary Architecture

2017

Modern architectural aesthetics is conditional on sustainable development as the basic principle of the balance between man and nature. Among the most complex problems of modern society are reduction of pollution and energy resource expenditure within the building sector. Most of the buildings are not built in accordance with the requirements of environmental protection, and are therefore energy-inefficient and costly to maintain. Problem solving requires implementation of certain design principles and application of different materials and systems for producing and saving energy. One of the most important aspects of the architecture is a selection of sustainable building materials that are least energy-intensive over their entire life cycles, the materials that can be recycled after use and reused in a new object. The aim of this study is to assess the basic architectural principles of sustainability as well as the selection of materials in order to preserve the environment and nat...

Green Architecture: A Concept of Sustainability

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2016

In recent years, sustainability concept has become the common interest of numerous disciplines. The reason for this popularity is to perform the sustainable development. The Concept of Green Architecture, also known as "sustainable architecture" or "green building," is the theory, science and style of buildings designed and constructed in accordance with environmentally friendly principles. Green architecture strives to minimize the number of resources consumed in the building's construction, use and operation, as well as curtailing the harm done to the environment through the emission, pollution and waste of its components. To design, construct, operate and maintain buildings energy, water and new materials are utilized as well as amounts of waste causing negative effects to health and environment is generated. In order to limit these effects and design environmentally sound and resource efficient buildings; "green building systems" must be introduced, clarified, understood and practiced. This paper aims at highlighting these difficult and complex issues of sustainability which encompass the scope of almost every aspect of human life.

Concepts in Sustainable Architecture and Critical Approaches on the Ecological Effect

Journal of International Social Research

The concept of sustainability in the 1970s is the result of human awareness for the environmental and the humanity issues, consist of cultural, social and economic problems. One of the most important goals of the sustainable development is to preserve nature and modify its perspective, and the manifestation of sustainable development in the environmental aspects is called sustainable architecture. Albeit the results of today's crises are well recognized, but the most of the presented solutions for environmental problems in a sustainable architecture seems to be ineffective and incomplete. Nevertheless, despite to the proposed solutions to the environmental problems, their approach to the nature keeps disconnected, and the eternal nature value remains non-restored. The purpose of this research is to seek for environmental theories of sustainable development and sustainable architecture. Thereby, it may complete its deficiencies by employing comparison of attitudes towards nature. In this way, this article firstly describes the goals of the sustainable development and sustainable architecture and secondly, it presents its solutions in order to identify its defects and can propose a more complete policy. Although sustainable development has ecological, economic and cultural-social roots, but, the role of the nature becomes more apparent with the search of the problems facing contemporary humans and their solution in the sustainable architecture. At the end of this paper, the nature and its broad meaning have been studied, which can determine the triple relationship of the human, the nature and the architecture. Considering the role of the human as well as architecture as a process that leads to sustainability, it will be the other important point in modifying the relationship between human, nature and architecture.

A Critical Approach Towards the Idea(L) of Sustainable Architecture

2004

Sustainable architecture currently appears in the mainstream of architectural theory and practice today. Being aware of the environmental devastation in which architectural practice is also participating, sustainability is considered to be an ethical approach, a social responsible act. Therefore looking from an environmental perspective, it is obvious that our profession finds a legitimate ground in the debates on sustainability. However the extraordinary amounts of projects, buildings, research and publications that sustainable architecture has provided to this profession seem to have resulted in a lot more hypocrisy than environmental devotion, knowing that architecture's participation in environmental healing is minor compared with other fields. Thus it is this article's intent to make a critical analysis of the ideal perception of sustainable architecture which offers a grand compromise on the contradictory concepts. It is written to prove the rethinking of sustainable architectural practice and theory considering the underlying motives and consequences.

Rethinking Sustainable architecture

2013

The main argument of this paper is that the sustainable architecture movement which is also referred to as green architecture in this thesis, is not delivering what it promised. It is argued that since sustainable architecture is only dealing with certain aspects of nature, deemed desirable by people, it cannot claim that it is a true ecological solution due to the fact that it leaves many of nature’s so called “undesirable” manifestations untreated and unprovided for. Thus in this paper I attempt to analyze the trends and shifts in the relationship of man and nature from Renaissance up to Modernity, evaluate the current definition of sustainability and its application in 1st, 2nd and 3rd world countries, introduce the relatively new concept of subnatures and finally superimpose the ideas of subnature with the ideology of sustainability. In doing so it is hoped that this paper will provide the initial questions and ideas that will generate a basis upon which further research and development of the core ideas of sustainability and subnatures will be carried out, in order to culminate into the creation of architecture that takes into account the entirety of nature as well as the human needs and aspirations.

Article Toward an A Priori Sustainable Architecture

2014

After decades of belief in the principles that man has absolute dominion over nature, and thus, in the separation of natural and anthropic processes, humanity is at the beginning of a new era characterized by the search for a renewed pact between man and the environment. This search has yielded new terminology to indicate sustainable ways of transforming the anthropic environment: zero-energy development, bioclimatic architecture, eco-buildings and low carbon footprint. Apparently, this new linguistic phenomenon is symptomatic of two trends: firstly, of a sort of amnesia, in the sense that traditional architecture was already sustainable, not out of choice, but out of survival needs (via its ties to local climate and materials); and secondly, of an identity crisis among designers caused by the difficulty in finding specific boundaries for the discipline of architecture and urban design. Reflecting on these aspects and through the description of two recent projects, this article addresses the renewed interest in re-establishing an inseparable relationship between natural and anthropic processes. The goal is to elucidate a localized form of sustainability by recovering and upgrading traditional knowledge.

The Role of Architecture in the Process of Moving Towards Sustainable Development

Journal of Sustainable Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2017

Environmental, social, and cultural problems arose in the twentieth century as a result of acceleration of industrial growth of societies as well as economic inequalities. Lack of proper development patterns was the main factor demanding the introduction of the concept of sustainable development in the second half of the twentieth century. The construction industry, particularly the residential construction sector, was one of the major factors of energy consumption in the world. Therefore, inclusion of the issue of sustainable development in this area and coupling housing development policies with the goal of sustainable development was of particular importance. In this regard, sustainability, as one of the most influential disciplines in the field of architecture, played an important role in order to meet the objectives of sustainable development. This paper reviewed the concepts of sustainable development and sustainable design, and addressed them in the field of architecture. The research method was descriptive-analytic, based on library information, and extracted data from the case studies. In this regard, the movements related to sustainable architecture have been categorized and characteristics of a sustainable building in terms of sustainable development goals have been outlined. The results showed the importance of the architecture in the process of moving towards sustainability. Subsequently, an appropriate approach to meet the goals of sustainability in architectural design has been developed and potentials of this process to achieve sustainability have been mentioned.