ARCHITECTURAL

DESIGN 5
First Semester AY 2023-2024
Ar. Corina V. Padilla
Assoc. Professor V
TOPICS

Ø COST AS A FACTOR OF DESIGN

Ø ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN BUILDINGS
Ø DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
Ø ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY

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TOPICS

Ø COST AS A FACTOR OF DESIGN

Waste, Quality and Efficiency

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Waste

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Waste

Ø Material Selection. Selecting the right materials is

fundamental to the zero-waste design
Ø Design for Disassembly
Ø Modularity
Ø Adaptability-the capacity to be modified for a new use
or purpose
Ø Waste Prevention
Ø Reuse and Recycling
Ø Material Recovery
Ø Energy Efficiency

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Waste

Junk Architecture-
Examples of buildings
using waste materials
for affordable housing
spaces

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”

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Waste

The recycling of
buildings is a healthy
green practice,
stressing the importance
of sustainability. This
is an invention of
triple impact- economic,
environmental, and
social. The prime goal
is to sustain
sustainability.
“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”

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Waste

Architects must design

buildings considering
the aforementioned
factors. Indeed, along
with developing new
skills, knowledge, and
attitude on
environmental issues,
architects have to learn
to be more curators of
the built environment
“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” rather than mere
creators.

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Waste
Sammy Ansah, an architect,
designed an apartment
transforming refuse into objects
of beauty in Abelenkpe, Western
Africa. He took inspiration from
the smell of wooden floorboards
and decided to use the empty
spool wheels laying waste to
create something valuable. He
thereby combined the junk from
construction sites with rubbish,
creating art out of waste.
Wheel Story House, Ghana

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Waste

Scrap House, San Francisco

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Waste

Wall erected using recycled

plastic bottles

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Waste

The windows made using discarded

iron rods and bicycle parts

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Waste

Large hollow blocks forming a jaali

wall

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Quality The Roman architect Vitruvius defined
three characteristics of good architecture in
his treatise De Architectura more than
2,000 years ago.

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Quality The Roman architect Vitruvius defined
three characteristics of good architecture in
his treatise De Architectura more than
2,000 years ago.

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Efficiency

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Thank you
Mirjam Nilsson
mirjam@contoso.com
www.contoso.com