Sustainability in urban design

Concerns over climate change, clean air and water,

renewable energy and land use draw attention to
sustainable urban planning -- the developmental
strategies and practices that ensure livable, self-
sustaining communities over the long term.

New sustainable solutions for urban planning

problems can include green buildings and
housing, mixed-use developments,
walkability, greenways and open spaces,
alternative energy sources such as solar and
wind, and transportation options.
Example of sustainable urban design
1.Quarter Vauban, a former French military base in Freiburg,
Germany. This site was redeveloped as a residential area with
strong emphasis on sustainability, liveability and citizen
empowerment.
2. The Dutch GWL area in Amsterdam. Here a residential area,
mixed with working places and amenities, has been realized
inside the city on a redeveloped former drinking water production
area. It shows a dense, car-free urban living area with space for
green (community) gardening
• QUARTIER VAUBAN (FREIBURG, GERMANY)
• Construction of the Vauban district in Freiburg,
Germany occurred between 1998 and 2010.
• Vauban has achieved extremely low rates of car use
with only about 17 percent of trips originating in
Vauban by car and 83 percent of trips involving
either non-motorized or public transit. RESIDENTAL AREA
• First, all residential areas are within walking distance
of public transit. Second, Vau-ban paid attention to
devel-oping safe and convenient biking and walking
paths.
• A single road for motor vehicles loops through the
area, with most of the road space designated for
pedestrians and bikers.
• The majority of Vauban’s residences do not have a
car.
• For the households that choose to own cars, Vauban
only offers parking in a few PLAN OF VAUBAN CITY
 SUSTAINABLE BUILDING IN NEPAL
• Soaltee Westend Premier Hotel is the only hotel to be LEED
Certified (on process) in Nepal. LEED Certification is all
about rating system devised of Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design by United States Green Building
Council (USGBC). LEED provides a framework to create
healthy, highly efficient and cost saving green buildings.
LEED certification is a globally recognized symbol of
sustainability achievement.
• 1. Activities carried out by hotel affects less to
environment.
• 2. Hotel retains top soil of the land during construction to
save the fertility of the land.
• 3. Hotel’s each room are designed in such engineering
technique that maximum sunlight can be obtained in the
rooms so that lights usage can be minimized.
• 4. Rooms windows are double glazed to maintain and
retain the appropriate internal temperature of rooms with
outside temperature.
• 5. Smoke scrubber is a system used by hotel for filtration
of kitchen exhaust smoke filtered with water before
• 6. Hotel use Building Management System (BMS) which is
computer based control system installed in building that
controls and monitors the building’s mechanical and electrical
equipment such as Ventilation, Lighting, Power systems, Fire
systems, Physical access control, pumping stations, Elevators
and security system.
• 7. Hotel Use Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) which is the
process of removing contaminants from wastewater. Physical,
Chemical and biological processes are used to remove
contaminants and produce treated wastewater that is safer for
the environment. Solid & liquid waste is separated where solid
treated waste will be used as fertilizer and used in gardening
purpose. Liquid waste is treated and recycled for irrigation and
toilet flushing.
• 8. Hotel use Water Treatment Plant (WTP) which is a process
to treat raw water to safe to drink water. This process includes
coagulation, Flocculation, Sedimentation, Filtration and
disinfection.
• 9. Rain water harvesting is another environmental friendly act
performed by Hotel. Water collection from rain is collected in
underground tank which is stored and used accordingly as and
when required like irrigation, fire hose etc.

• Sustainable design – The goal is
to eliminate a negative impact on
the environment through skillful,
sensitive design. Through a
minimalistic approach to
impacting the environment,
sustainable design utilizes
renewable resources. Principles
of sustainable design include:
• Use of environmentally
friendly
• Enhancement of indoor
environmental quality
• Protection and conservation • Organic architecture is a philosophy of architecture
of resources, such as water
• Optimize renewable energy
• Enhance operational and
maintenance procedures
• Organic architecture can translate to the all-inclusive
INTRODUCTION
• Green building – a building
that reduces or eliminates a
negative impact on the
environment. One that creates
positive influence on the
environment and climate.
Green buildings may include
any of the following features:
• Solar or another form of
energy
• Utilization of green roofs
and rain gardens
• Use of non-toxic,
that promotes harmony between human habitation and sustainable, low-impact,
the natural world. We achieve this through design and ethical materials
approaches that aim to be sympathetic and well- • Recycling reuse and
integrated. reduction of waste
• Design and construction
nature of Wright’s design process. Materials, motifs, that considers the quality
and basic ordering principles continue to repeat of life
themselves throughout the building. The idea of organic
is to how the buildings’ design is reflected as if it were a
unified organism.
 • Organic vs sustainable
• The basic difference between sustainable and
organic architecture is that sustainable architecture
aims to reduce the environmental impact as much as
possible whereas organic architecture is one that
mimics nature in its designs.
• Sustainable architecture is an evolved concept which
tries to decrease as much harm to the environment as
possible, caused by the particular design of the
structure. Organic architecture, a term coined by
Frank Lloyd Wright, is a process of design that
Organic architecture makes the structure look as natural as possible, just
like it blends with nature and doesn't stand out.

• Green vs sustainable
• The primary difference is that sustainability design is a
broad ideology that takes into consideration social,
environmental, performance, and financial implications.
Green design focuses more on the environmental
aspects.
• While many green products are environmentally
friendly, looking at them from the sustainability aspect
involves digging deeper. How are they sourced, where
did they come from, what resources went into the
production?