Sustainable design
Environmentally sustainable appearance also called environmentally conscious design, eco-design, etc. is a philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, as living as services to comply with the principles of ecological sustainability and also aimed at reclassification the health and comfortability of occupants in a building.
Sustainable layout seeks to reduce negative impacts on the environment, the health and well-being of building occupants, thereby improve building performance. The basic objectives of sustainability are to reduce the consumption of non-renewable resources, minimize waste, and make healthy, productive environments.
Applications
Applications of this philosophy range from the macrocosm — buildings, cities, and the Earth's physical surface. this is the a philosophy that can be applied in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, urban planning, engineering, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, fashion design and human-computer interaction.
Sustainable design is mostly a general reaction to global environmental crises, the rapid growth of economic activity and human population, depletion of natural resources, damage to ecosystems, and loss of biodiversity. In 2013, eco architecture writer Bridgette Meinhold surveyed emergency and long-term sustainable housing projects that were developed in response to these crises in her book, “Urgent Architecture: 40 Sustainable Housing Solutions for a Changing World.” proposed projects focus on green building, sustainable design, eco-friendly materials, affordability, material reuse, and humanitarian relief. Construction methods and materials include repurposed shipping containers, straw bale construction, sandbag homes, and floating homes.
The limits of sustainable design are shrinking. Because growth in goods and services consistently outpaces gains in efficiency. As a result, the net case of sustainable design has simply been to improve the efficiency of rapidly increasing impacts. This problem is non solved by the current approach, which focuses on the efficiency of delivering individual goods and services. The essential dilemmas are as follows: the increasing complexity of efficiency improvements; the difficulty of implementing new technologies in societies built around old ones; the fact that the physical impacts of delivering goods and services are not localized, but are distributed across economies; and the fact that the scale of resource use is growing and not stabilizing.
Sustainable architecture is the design of sustainable buildings. Sustainable architecture attempts to reduce the collective environmental impacts during the production of building components, during the construction process, as well as during the lifecycle of the building heating, electricity use, carpet cleaning etc. This design practice emphasizes efficiency of heating and cooling systems; alternative energy dominance such as solar hot water, appropriate building siting, reused or recycled building materials; on-site power to direct or established generation - solar technology, ground mention heat pumps, wind power; rainwater harvesting for gardening, washing and aquifer recharge; and on-site waste management such as green roofs that filter and domination stormwater runoff. This requirescooperation of the design team, the architects, the engineers, and the client at all project stages, from site selection, scheme formation, the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object selection and procurement, to project implementation. This is also called a charrette.
Appropriate building siting and smaller building footprints are vital to an environmentally sustainable design. Oftentimes, a buildingmay be very well designed, and power professional but its location requires people to travel far back and forth – increasing pollution that may not be building presented but is directly as a written of the building anyway.
Sustainable architecture must also move the building beyond its useful life. Its disposal or recycling aspects also come under the cruise of sustainability. Often, modular buildings are better to score apart and less energy intensive to add together too. The destruction from the demolition site must be disposed of correctly and everything that can be harvested and used again should be designed to be extricated from the structure with ease, preventing unnecessary wastage when decommissioning the building.
Another important aspect of sustainable architecture stems from the question of if a structure is needed. Sometimes the best that can be done to make a structure sustainable is retrofitting or upgrading the building services and supplies instead of tearing it down. Abu Dhabi, for example has undergone and is undergoing major retrofitting to slash its energy and water consumption rather than demolishing and rebuilding new structures.