Course : ARCH6061 – Sustainable Architecture

Effective Period : September 2019

Green House
Architecture and Climate
Architecture and Climate

Did you know that the

building contributes up
to 38% from world
energy usage?
 Architecture and Climate

Did you know that the Heating and Cooling

systems takes 31% of residential electricity
consumption?
 Architecture and Climate

Did you know that the Heating systems takes

25% of commercial electricity consumption?
 Architecture and Climate

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must

at the outset take note of the countries and climates in
which they are built. One style of house seems appropriate
to build in Egypt, another in Spain, a different kind in
Pontus, one still different in Rome, . . . because one part of
the earth is directly under the sun’s course, another is far
away from it . . . hence, as the position of the heaven with
regard to a given tract on the earth leads naturally to
different characteristics . . . it is obvious that designs for
houses ought similarly to conform to the nature of the
country and to diversities of climate.
The Science of Global
Warming

http://www.grida.no/
The Science of Global
Warming
The Science of Global
Warming
 The International Politics

UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

 Global Warming and Building
Design

UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Regarding the domestic and tertiary sector, the improving standards of

living resulted in higher levels of heating and recently of cooling, while
the increase in the number of dwelling units resulted in a rise in the
ownership of home electric appliances. Energy demand for ventilation,
lighting and other office equipment in the tertiary sector has also
increased. However, there is a number of factors helping to reduce the
rate of increase in energy consumption (e.g. installation of thermal
insulation in private residences and apartment buildings, installation of
solar water heating units in residences and hotels, the installation of
double glazing in new and in some cases in older buildings, replacement
or modernization of older electric and heating appliances etc.).
 Building Design and Climate
Change

Building Design Principles:

1.Reducing the Greenhouse Gas emissions that are

produced during the manufacture, transport and putting in
place of the materials of construction,
2.Reducing the Greenhous Gas emissions from the
operation of the building, and
3.Responding to the predictable or imagined effects of
climate change such as global warming, the higher intensity
of rainfall or increased humidity.
 The Appropriate Objective

Dealing with energy use is necessary but is not sufficient if

we are to tackle reducing possible climate change.
Concentrating on misconstrued objectives, and associated
means, obscures dealing in a meaningful and holistic way
with the issue of sustainable building design.
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