Saturday, April 18, 2009

Green Architecture

As the world is going through a speeded up heating process, architecture has many fields of action in this issue for the worst or the better.

Designing a building self sustainable, with clean energy, with biomass that can support the environment and solve the necessities of people; it’s a pretty difficult task but it takes consciousness to make it happen.

Construction is one of the mayor issues in global warming; it’s very big consumer of natural resources and it waste a big percentage of what it consumes. The task is not simple in this field but in labor we can do a lot, recycling wood, recycling transitorily usage material etc.


The surface buildings are very inefficient in most cases.
Surface can be used as a energy provided or a space
to have green biomass helping to the cooling system
of the building.

Another important part of the green architecture is the design. Green has given to architecture a new amazing concept that is to integrate green biomass to the building design. It gives to the building contact with the environment, as we must leave opened spaces for the green biomass the building is also given some transparency, structure come to sight and the building form turns irregular very far from monotony.


Green architecture could be consider as the top of the modern movement, the organically forms, the regular forms combined create a like optimums very consistent forms.

Cities in forests or little forest in cities can be distinguished very easily by it contrasting forms and the whole nature of both; the buildings and nature. Green architecture can bring continuity to the city and nature; it can have a controlled ecosystem without taking plants and trees instead comminuting them with the building.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Structure as an sculpture





One of the best and easiest things to make a good preliminary project is to consider how to design the structure. It becomes functional interesting and without much effort you can combine the fundamental characteristics of architecture.

Designing a structure has to be a way to get a sort of a sculpture in order to make it accessible to people.

Structure with it combines solid and voids, texture, knots, transparency, illumination and repetition. Essential characteristics to consider.
Structures are a very big problem when it comes to building or designing because there are other things to consider like the main installations and building systems, a well manage structure could let all and every one of installations so they could be visible, playing with the colours of the electrical cable or contrasting the pipes of water from the walls.

Structure in a building is what makes the building, in the structures are all the forces of static fighting together, structure should be visible in most of the projects that means that the whole building is showing itself how it is and utility installations have to be design to make a well manage structural project.