Sustainability and green

architecture
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“Buildings and construction account for more than 35% of
global final energy use and nearly 40% of energy-related CO2
emissions.”
-UN Environment, Global Status Report 2017

Sustainable architecture is also referred to as green

architecture or environmental architecture. It challenges
architects to produce smart designs and use available
technologies to ensure that structures generate minimal harmful
effects to the ecosystem and the communities.
 
Sustainable architecture is reflected in a building’s materials,
construction methods, resource use and design in general. The
design must also facilitate sustainable operation during the
building life cycle, including its ultimate disposal. While it has
to be functional and aesthetically superior, the space has to be
constructed with the mind-set of achieving long-term energy and
.resource efficiency

Shift from narrow to broader approach:

The term "sustainability" in relation to architecture has so far
been mostly considered through the lens of building technology
and its transformations. Going beyond the technical sphere of
"green design", invention and expertise, some scholars are
starting to position architecture within a much broader cultural
framework of the human interrelationship with nature. Adopting
this framework allows tracing a rich history of cultural debates
about our relationship to nature and the environment, from the
point of view of different historical and geographical contexts.
Changing pedagogues
Critics of the reductionism of modernism often noted the
abandonment of the teaching of architectural history as a causal
factor. The fact that a number of the major players in the shift
away from modernism were trained at Princeton University's
School of Architecture, where recourse to history continued to
be a part of design training in the 1940s and 1950s, was
significant. The increasing rise of interest in history had a
profound impact on architectural education. History courses
became more typical and regularized. With the demand for
professors knowledgeable in the history of architecture. In the
US, MIT and Cornell were the first, created in the mid-1970s,
followed by Columbia, Berkeley, and Princeton.

‫إن التراث المعماري لشعب معين هو التعبير عن تجربته الفنية والتقنية في‬
‫ والعودة إلى األصالة‬،‫التعامل مع المعطيات البيئية لإلقليم الجغرافي الذي يقطنه‬
‫في التراث المعماري تفرض السعي إلى عمارة أكثر انسجاما مع مواد البيئة‬
:‫وظروفها من خالل‬
The architectural heritage of a particular people is the
expression of its artistic and technical experience in dealing
with the environmental data of the geographical region in
which it resides, and returning to the originality in the
architectural heritage dictates the pursuit of architecture more
in harmony with the materials and conditions of the
environment through:
‫االستفادة من مواد البناء المتوفرة في بيئة معينة يعطي العمارة طابعا مميزا‬
‫ فيميز عمارة عن أخرى باستخدامها لهذه‬،‫ينعكس على الحجم والشكل واللون‬
. (... ‫ الزجاج‬،‫ الخشب‬،‫ الطين‬،‫ الطوب‬،‫المواد مثل (الحجر‬
•‫اختالف الشروط والظروف البيئية بين منطقة وأخرى يعطي العمارة والعمران‬
.‫طابعا مميزا خاصا ينعكس على التصميم والشكل‬
‫ البد من دراسة الظروف والمعطيات‬،‫ولفهم التأثيرات على التصميم ألي منشأة‬
‫ وذلك من حيث التشميس والحرارة والرطوبة‬،‫البيئية لكل منطقة من المناطق‬
.‫والرياح وما لها من تأثير على النسيج العمراني والمعماري‬

Utilizing the building materials available in a particular

environment gives architecture a distinctive character that is
reflected in size, shape and color, distinguishing one building
from another by using these materials (such as stone, bricks,
clay, wood, glass...).
The difference in environmental conditions from one region
to another gives architecture and urbanization a special
character that is reflected in the design and shape.

In order to understand the effects on the design of any

facility, it is necessary to study the environmental conditions
and data for each of the regions, in terms of insolation, heat,
humidity and wind, and their impact on the urban and
architectural fabric.
Sustainable Architecture and Simulation Modelling", Dublin Institute of
Technology, [1] Archived 2013-05-06 at the Wayback Machine