Sustainable Design Versus Aesthetic Design

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 essay will discuss the differences between the two architects, Le Corbusier and Laurie Baker and how concerns such as sustainability and climate change relates to contemporary visual culture. Le Corbusier was born in Switzerland on October 6th, 1887 and died in France on August 27th, 1965. Corbusier was known for his minimalist designs and theoretical implementations to his designs. Corbusier uses what he titles it to be the “five points of a new architecture” and in these points, it is clear to see that Corbusier prioritises aesthetics over function. Laurie Baker was born in England on March 2nd, 1917 and died in India on April 1st, 2007. Baker looked at both technical and aesthetic qualities equally and did not prioritise in one. Baker constantly considers the way to provide an eco-friendly way to produce something whereas Corbusier’s designs involved heavy machinery which produces negative contributions to the environment. This essay mainly use the recourses, Architecture of rural housing: some issues in India by Romi Khosla, Le Corbusier’s Ruins: The Changing Face of Chandigarh’s Capitol by Vinayak Bharne, and A contemporary city by Le Corbusier.

Architecture was born to serve the essential needs of human life. But architecture is not simply a function, capabilities such as objects, objects. The existence of the same architecture of human life has created the spiritual values​​. Architecture itself has aesthetic value, artistic value is part of the factors. There are small works, with the ancient architecture, over hundreds of years still exist. Many buildings that were built with permanent materials, not too stable structural, mechanical and material in its original meaning; but it still exists, and shine. Because his works contained the great cultural value. In other words, it is the culture of sustainable architecture. Government sustainability "invisible" This has tremendous power, a force without any harm, destruction was, whether natural or man. Conversely, can sustainable building structures, sustainable beauty is destroyed by other factors, such as planning, or administrative guidelines on the management of any construction or it be eliminated by bringing the non-human elements, without the support and consensus of the community.

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.

The epitome of Glenn Murcutt’s design philosophy is the award winning Simpson-Lee house. Every aspect of the house design reflects Murcutt’s strong “sense of place” and world renowned philosophy to “touch this earth lightly”. When thinking about Murcutt, my mind kept returning to his strong connection to and respect for the environment. It seemed natural to present his work with elements from nature. This assessment created a strong connection with the work and delivered surprises amid the process. Evolving a work from nothing gives a feeling of truth – a wholesome satisfaction from bringing forth from nothing.

In the process of the good spatial generation, architects are representatives of institutional knowledge and ‘the captain of the ship’. They have power and control over designing and production of space either directly by taking part in this process via their personal practices or indirectly affecting it through their professional organizations they work for. This is where the role of professional ethics in architecture comes to play and they should be limiting and leading this power through describing architect’s social responsibilities and also should be preventing unethical attitudes in all kinds of spatial practices by using this power and knowledge. (“What is the Social Responsibility of Architects?”, 2010)

As writer, interior designer, educator, and American architect Frank Lloyd Wright once said, “The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization” (BrainyQuote). The purpose of this paper will deal with the description of...

Architecture should be nurturing, responsive and alive, dynamically shifting spatial balances, organically expressive forms, subtly luminous colors and biologically healthy. To achieve such life-enhancing architecture, it has to address all the body senses simultaneously and fuse our image of self with experience of the world. By strengthening our sense of self and reality, architecture serves its all-important function of accommodation and

Today, there is a renewed emphasis by landscape architects on the reclamation and rehabilitation of these sites, with the intention of improving them for the greater good. In doing so landscape architects are attempting to take a step back and consider both the history of these sites, their current worth and future legacy.

Whether it be and architectural response to a state of war, a public works project indicating the actual role of a governing body, or a built environment designed to impose and promote a future of cultural assimilation, architecture, and environmental design are tools being used by both subjects and the enforcers of the social contract to convey their will and intention. While it may seem that with the United States in the hands of a seemingly aimless land developer that country would be on a likewise tumultuous trajectory, but the built environment tells another story. I leave you with this image showing, in truth, that the power of the of the governing body resides and is subject to the will of its constituents. And that while architecture and the built environment are generally seen to be focused on a scale of grandeur and imposition, simple architectural interventions have the ability to convey the intent of those under the social contract and their resolve to uphold

Steven Kellert, in his book Building for Life, starts off by echoing David Orr, saying that “the current environmental crisis is considered a design failure rather than an unavoidable aspect of modern life.” He continues on to identify his main point: “Our primary focus is how the experience of nature as a normal aspect of people’s everyday lives at home, work, or play, or in their neighborhoods and communities, affects their basic health and well-being.” Kellert establishes nature’s benefits to people’s daily lives. After explaining the benefits and shortcomings of various experiences of nature (direct, indirect and vicarious), Kellert describes how people can “harmonize…the natural and human built environments through changes in how we design and develop our increasingly urban world.” He describes this through the concept of restorative environmental design, which includes Low Environmental Impact Design and Biophilic Design. Low environmental impact design concerns the “avoiding, minimizing, and mitigating the adverse effects of building and landscape development on natural systems and human health.” Biophilic design, building upon the work done through low environmental impact design, “encompasses two basic dimensions: organic (or naturalistic) design and vernacular (or place-based) design.” Within architecture, Kellert defines organic design as “building shapes and forms that directly, indirectly, or symbolically elicit a human affinity for natural features and processes.” About vernacular design, Kellert writes that “a critical aspect of restorative environmental design is buildings and constructed landscapes that connect to the places they occur…vernacular design…[is] the tailoring of the built environment to the particular physical and cultural places where people live and work.” Kellert defends the need for placed-based architecture, writing that “without vernacular connections to the culture and ecology of place, buildings and

Sustainability is the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance.

Non-Contextual designs have abundant amounts of thought put into the design. The architects gather information from all around them. They take in the nature, the culture, and the

The fact that high-rise buildings are massive energy consumers is a key factor that has influenced the current development of tall building constructions. Their scale and purpose have turned them into dominant components in urban architecture. Architects and engineers have opted to go green as a solution to the dangers of energy consumption posed by high-rise buildings to the environment. As much as tall buildings have played a key role in combating population growth and the lack of space, they have been noted to use massive energy in the way of construction hence causing the overflow of wastes and environmental pollution. Furthermore, they deprive residents of light and natural weather. With sustainability being the main aim, architects and engineers have therefore revolutionized the conventional design to come up with high performance high-rise buildings. The current high performance design comes with benefits such as indoor environmental quality, resource conservation, design flexibility and energy efficiency among several others. However, the design process of a sustainable high-rise building is quite complex. It calls for the designer to have an understanding of the performance of the building in terms of different variables and design factors presented under conflicting conditions as well. As such various professionals such as behavioral scientists, social scientists, engineers, planners and architects among other groups, end up participating in the design process.

Which eventually discourage designer put in effort to considerate the social aspect during design thinking, the word “social sustainability” were being treated as ideological thought in design until recent years, the attention of social consideration in several industry has become mainstream.