Principles of Green Architecture

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DR. DOHA MOHAMED

CONTENT
◦ What is green urbanism?
◦ Importance
◦ Principles of Green Urbanism
◦ Main three Pillars in green urbanism
◦ Main Idea of Green Urbanism
◦ Examples
◦ Reuse , Reduce and Recycle
What is green urbanism?

◦ It is the practice of creating communities beneficial to humans and the environment, it is an attempt to shape more sustainable
places, communities and lifestyles, and consume less of the world's resources.
Importance:
◦ Green cities encourage and provide for the most sustainable lifestyles.
◦ They have an active approach towards addressing climate change and being environmentally friendly.
◦ These cities might implement things such as recycling programs, bike lanes, community parks, and have water quality standards
 Principles of Green Urbanism
1. Climate and Context.
In view of a climatic condition, before you choose the city, each sustainable outline extends necessities to keep up a many-sided quality inside
biodiversity, eco-framework or neighborhood format.
2. Renewable Energy for Zero CO2 Emissions.
Change city areas into nearby power stations of sustainable power sources including the sun powered PV, sun based warm, twist on-and-
seaward, biomass, geothermal power, smaller than normal hydro vitality and other new advances.
3. Zero Waste City.
Squander aversion is superior to the treatment or tidying up after waste is framed. So urban communities ought to receive zero-squander urban
arranging in accordance with the assembling of metals, glass, plastics, paper into new items
4. Water.
Urban communities can be utilized as a water catchment territory by teaching the tenants in water productivity, advancing water accumulation
and utilizing waste water reusing and stormwater collecting systems.
5. Landscape, Gardens, and Biodiversity.
Present inward city gardens, urban cultivating/agribusiness and green rooftops to augment the versatility of the eco-framework through an urban
scene in this manner to relieve UHI impact.
6. Sustainable Transport and Good Public Space: Compact and Poly-Centric Cities.
An incorporation of non-mechanized transport, for example, cycling or strolling and bicycle or person on foot benevolent condition with safe
bikeways, eco-versatility ideas and keen foundation that is electric vehicles,
7. Local and Sustainable Materials with Less Embodied Energy.
City development by utilizing provincial, neighborhood materials with less epitomized vitality and applying pre-created particular frameworks.

8. Green Buildings and Districts, Using Passive Design Principles.

The city, here, applies dark green building plan methodologies and offers sunlight based access for every single new building
Main three Pillars in
green urbanism
Main Idea of Green Urbanism
Examples
1. Vauban, Freiburg – Germany
◦ All houses are built to a low-energy consumption
standard, with 100 units designed to the Passivhaus
ultra-low energy building standard. Other buildings
are heated by a combined heat and power station
burning wood chips, while many of the buildings
have solar collectors or photovoltaic cells.
◦ Within Vauban, transport is primarily by foot or
bicycle. The development is connected to Freiburg
city centre by a tramway and is laid out linearly
along the tracks, such that all homes are within easy
walking distance from a tram stop.
Examples
1. Vauban, Freiburg – Germany
◦ All houses are built to a low-energy consumption
standard, with 100 units designed to the Passivhaus
ultra-low energy building standard. Other buildings
are heated by a combined heat and power station
burning wood chips, while many of the buildings
have solar collectors or photovoltaic cells.
◦ Within Vauban, transport is primarily by foot or
bicycle. The development is connected to Freiburg
city centre by a tramway and is laid out linearly
along the tracks, such that all homes are within easy
walking distance from a tram stop.
Examples
2. Hammarby Sjöstad – Sweden
◦ The district is the product of a positive
collaborative process between municipal authorities,
urban planners, developers, architects, landscape
architects, engineers at eco-tech businesses, energy
company Fortum and the Stockholm Water
Company.
◦ The main source of heating in Hammarby Sjöstad, a
town within the municipality of Stockholm, is
district heating. Thirty-four percent of this heat
comes from purified waste water, 47% from
combustible household waste and 16% from bio
fuel (2002 figures).
References
◦ https://www.intechopen.com/books/climate-change-research-and-technology-for-adaptation-and-mitigation/what-is-green-
urbanism-holistic-principles-to-transform-cities-for-sustainability

◦ https://www.ierek.com/news/index.php/2017/07/23/15-principles-green-urbanism/
◦ https://ocw.tudelft.nl/course-exercises/four-examples-sustainable-urban-development/
◦ https://www.urbangreenbluegrids.com/projects/hammarby-sjostad-stockholm-sweden/
◦ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauban,_Freiburg