WEEK 16 | ARC 1428: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 3

Learning Outcomes

• Define and discuss the

importance of Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG’s) in the
nation building
• Translate and interpret the role of
the SDGs in architecture and its
allied services.
• Relate the existing conditions of a
city and evaluate how SDG’s can
be applied.
What is Sustainability?
Sustainability in
Architecture

• a strategy for creating healthier and more

resource-efficient models for construction,
renovation, operation, maintenance, and
demolition in which energy remains a
pivotal component, green design needs to
consider other environmental impacts.
(McLennan, J. F., 2004)

Fig: AR5 Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. IPCC,2014

3 Pillars of Sustainability

Environmental Social Economic

 Respect for the Wisdom of Natural Systems – The
Biomimicry Principle

Respect for People – The Human Vitality Principle

The Six
Governing Respect for Place – The Ecosystem Principle

Principles of
Respect for the Cycle of Life–The “Seven Generations”
Sustainable Principle

Design Respect for Energy and Natural Resources – The

Conservation Principle

Respect for Process – The Holistic Thinking Principle

Predecessor of Sustainable Development
Goals
Millennium Development
Goals in 2012
• was developed in September of 2000 during the
UN General Assembly Summit Session.
• “Millennium Declaration”
 MDG Key Achievements
The number of people now
living in extreme poverty
has declined by more than
half.
Gender parity in primary
school has been achieved in
the majority of countries
New HIV infections fell by
approximately 40 percent
between 2000 and 2013
The number of people in
the working middle class—
living on more than $4 a day
—nearly tripled.
mortality rate of children
under-five was cut by more
than half since 1990
Worldwide 2.1 billion
people have gained access
to improved sanitation.
proportion of number of out-of-school
undernourished people in children of primary school
the developing regions age worldwide fell by
dropped by almost half almost half
Since 1990, maternal 6.2 million malaria deaths
mortality fell by 45 percent have been averted between
worldwide 2000 and 2015
Globally, 147 countries have
Official development
met the MDG drinking
assistance from developed
water target, 95 countries
countries increased 66
have met the MDG
percent in real terms from
sanitation target and 77
2000 and 2014,
countries have met both.
MDG  SDG
 a bold commitment to finish what we started,
and tackle some of the more pressing
challenges facing the world today

Sustainable SDGs coincided with another historic

Developmen agreement reached in 2015 at the COP21 Paris
Climate Conference. Together with the Sendai
Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
t Goal
Reaffirm international commitment to end
poverty, permanently, everywhere. Ambitious
in making sure no one is left behind
169 TARGETS | 232 INDICATORS
Environmental - Foundation Social

Economy
Sustainable Development Report
https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/map
SDG  ARCHITECTURE?
RIBA BASIC
APPLICATIO
N OF THE 17
SDGS IN THE
PROFESSION
PHILIPPINES APPLICATION
TO SDG
• Partnership Framework for Sustainable Development (PFSD) 2019-2023
• the fifth Philippines– UN country plan since 1995
• the first that redefines the nature of UN System engagement in the Philippines from one that
provides “development assistance” to a collaboration in a strategic partnership
• the initial investment in a longer-term UN effort to support the Filipinos’ own vision for their
country as articulated in Ambisyon Natin 2040
3 THE STRATEGIES OF THE
PDP
 enhancing the social fabric, which centers on improving the quality of governance,
 inequality-reducing transformation (expanding economic opportunities and increasing access to
these), and
 increasing potential growth. Together, these strategies are expected to lead to “more inclusive
growth, a high-trust and resilient society, and a globally competitive knowledge economy” by 2022
and more “strongly rooted, comfortable, and secure lives” by 2040.
PFSD 2019-2023 : THREE PILLARS