High Rise Buildings : Massive Energy Consumers

The buildings designed by early builders and constructed by the craftsmen of the time—though they often incorporated foreign styles—took on local features and became a stylistic synthesis of particular concepts of space, structure, form, and function. Vernacular building is integrated within the nature. If we look upon the vernacular structure it leads towards sustainability and in modern decade sustainable architecture is too much required. Vernacular architecture presents basic and simple solutions for the sustainable issues because it has significant environmentally features that respond to sustainability such as low energy techniques to provide for human comfort, approaches that are integral to the form, orientation, and materials that are obtained from local resources. Thus, vernacular buildings and correspondingly settlements can be accepted as a knowledge source for sustainable building design ideas. Therefore, lessons learned from vernacular architecture can help in designing of environmentally friendly built environments. Studies from vernacular architecture may give birth to new ideas and designs for modern era which will be environmental friendly as well as economical. All buildings must be designed with specific cultures in

This manifesto proposes an approach to sustainable design that I am interested in exploring during my time studying architecture. The idea of sustainability is a complex one, not without apparent contradictions. This makes it difficult to define in a wholly satisfactory manner. For the purposes of this manifesto I will advert to the definition proposed by Jason McLennan who asserts that sustainable design: “seeks to maximize the quality of the built environment, while minimizing or eliminating negative impact to the natural environment.” I find this definition particularly useful in the emphasis which it places on quality. By quality, in this

Interior design and architecture are essential, and often overlooked, aspects of everyday life. In modern society people rely on function, durability, and visual appeal when selecting designs for their homes, businesses, and places of leisure. The way that a space is designed influences such things as mood, which, in the case of a business, can impact the productivity of employees and either draw or repel customers. In residential design, the design becomes very personal and, to be considered a successful design, must properly reflect the home owner while at the same time offering some practicality that makes the space livable. An effective design, for any space, must solve some problem, be it function, flexibility, or some other criteria. Simply solving a problem would not please the customer, however, unless it offered some visual appeal. Creating function with style is the real job of any interior designer, and is essential in a content society.

Being environmentally friendly isn’t merely a trend. After thousands of years of using the earth’s resources, we have finally come to realize that we are destroying this beautiful gift we were honored with. Architects play an influential role in trying to preserve this gift by encouraging a multitude of strategies that can be more cost efficient in the long run, be more comfortable for its users, and most importantly, have a lower carbon footprint. Strategies can include drastic changes to heat and air systems, construction material selections, or even specific design details to the architecture of a building that would reduce the amount of energy it consumes.

Interior design is a profession that is undertaken academically just like other professional careers. It mainly involves the development and imparting of skills, knowledge and attitudes that pertains the activities undertaken in the building and construction industry. The profession of interior designing goes beyond designing how a structure will look because it incorporates environmental issues especially aesthetic value of the structure to be constructed, the ergonomics, local fire codes and besides studying fundamental design issues and practice in the building and construction industry (Guerin & Thompson, 2014). Even though the profession is not as old as some of the established professions, the fact remains that the fundamentals of design

skyscraper architecture "http://www.coshe.com/search/" The architectural design of the 20th century skyscrapers has been redefined due to the advancement of our modern technology. Benny Louie Humanity 450 Dr. Maureen Schmid 17 May 1999 The architectural design of the 20th century skyscrapers has been redefined due to the advancement of our modern technology. In our modern society, the architectural design of skyscrapers is changing the downtown landscape of metropolitan areas. Due to the change of technologies, it has changed the architectural design of skyscraper dramatically in terms of the its function, design structures, heating and cooling systems and it social status in society. The basic function of the architecture is to provide a

They perceived social attributes of the architectural features as important. The appropriate alterations for building front (e.g., entrance and porch), height and scale were to solidify community’s demographic character and strengthen their social bond and diversity. However, this study illustrated that a controversy can arise in the pursuit of social bond and diversity. For instance, the desire for protection of the existing residents from gentrification conflicted with the desire for social diversity (i.e. building height and scale) in this study. Furthermore, participants evaluated an acceptable change depending on how the original features were, on how they had been modified and how they have been currently serving a social function. (i.e., building entrances and porches). The affordability and practicality of the features were also important issues. Wealthy Heights was historically a working class neighborhood. Many low income families still live in this district to this day. Such a recognition seems associated with the issues and influential to the importance and/or acceptable treatments for the materials. Interestingly, these concerns resulted in participants’ interest in construction materials and technology for a green

Over the past few decades a small number of designers and design professionals have begun to realize their influence on the natural world and have decided to change the way they think of design and designing. This new approach has become known as sustainable design. Sustainable Design is a design philosophy that seeks to maximize the quality of the built environment, while minimizing or eliminating negative impact to the natural environment. In others words designing physical objects with the idea of creating under the principles of ecological sustainable compositions. This type of design is being having great advance and advertising during the last couple of years, therefore is becoming a new alternative in terms of designing and

Would painting your house a different color change its overall temperature? The project presented is about the studies of the effects of different colored paints when applied to a building’s roof. In the studies it was discovered that a lighter color will not keep the heat trapped so a light colored house will do well in a hot region, such as El Paso. A darker colored house would trap the heat, so a house that is darker will serve a better purpose in a colder region. The materials needed for this project are acrylic paint in red, white, brown. Apply the paint to three different boxes. When that is done set a timer for 30 min and leave the boxes outside and record the temperatures. Once the time is up, record the readings and input them into a chart. This will make it easier to analyze the results and see the differences between each temperature. This experiment can help you decide what color is the best option to paint your roof. Doing this experiment can help notice what colors regulate temperature the best in different environment.

Sustainability, a common vocab being used in design industry nowadays. It is mean to design something with a well consideration of improve environment, people and economic, which has become the fundamental aspect when comes to initiate the design thinking. According to Oxford Institute for sustainable development, the tools to measure and construct sustainable urban development are prejudicial focus on environmental and economic aspects. Most of the time, ecological and economical sustainability are well concerned but Social sustainable, which merely shown or mentioned on any press or architect’s forum. This essay will talk about the social sustainability in design, by defining the social sustainability in design, the key elements of the

In today’s world, having a job has become a major part of our lives. As human beings, we want to have the capacity to provide for ourselves, and become less dependent on others. This is because depending on others makes people to lose respect and self-esteem. As the need for job increases, so does the need for a better working environment. Many of the jobs today are conducted indoors rather than outdoors. For this reason, construction companies have to ensure that the buildings they construct provide employees with an outdoor-like feeling to improve their efficiency at the workplace. Office jobs require employees to sit down for long hours, which can have negative effects on their health. The key to improved employee morale lies in the design, maintenance, and setup of the workplace because they spend the majority of their time in that space.

Tall buildings are built with an abundant amount of resources because of their enormous scale. This paper presents sustainable structural engineering strategies for tall buildings, which will lead to the construction of tall buildings with less amount of structural material to meet design requirements. Selecting a particular structural system for tall building design involves many complex factors, such as availability of resources, architectural aesthetics, spatial organizations and structural efficiency. SOLUTION OF THE

With global warming, the world's attention on building energy efficiency is increasing. There are a large proportion of architects recognised that the main factor of global warming is the use of building energy generated by CO2. Sustainable architecture is involving methods that do not completely use up or destroy natural resources. There are several major elements need to be considered, such as technology, economy and Health . However, architects pay their greatest attention to environment. Because environment is the fundamental factor of others and influence humans’ life . Sustainable architectures reduce the consumption of resources in order to save energy for nature and also green buildings produce less pollution in order to save environment. Evidence suggests that sustainable architectures are advantageous for environment.Whereas, other individuals states that sustainable buildings get more drawbacks. This essay argues that the advantages of sustainable architecture far outweigh the disadvantages in relation to technology , energy saving and economy.

One of the main consumers of fossil fuel and source of the greenhouse gases is buildings. The solution of this problem is “upgrade” our houses; make them smarter, environmentally friendly and effective. Moreover, the smart homes will have many devices, which will replace the big part of routine tasks, and life of people will be much easier. (Stephene S. Intille, 2006). Governments support the building of eco-buildings, because they emit less carbon dioxide. For example, in the UK it planned to reduce emissions by 2050 (DECC 2011, 30). Moreover, building of eco-houses will improve IT and alternative energy technologies. This paper will argue that building of eco-houses is the best way of future architecture and building technologies.

Green building practices plan to diminish the ecological effect of building. The principal guideline is that the greenest building is the building that doesn 't get fabricated. Since development quite often debases a building site, not constructing at all is desirable over green building, regarding lessening ecological effect. The second decide is that each building ought to be as little as could be allowed. The third lead is not to help sprawl, regardless of the possibility that the most vitality productive, naturally sound techniques are utilized as a part of outline and development. Urban infill destinations are desirable over suburban "greenfield" locales