Monday, May 4, 2009

Integration and eficiency





Architecture is our way of adapting the environment to us. To this concept we should add that after adapting the environment we should integrate with it.

In our cities we see a substantial difference between it and the nature (if not destroyed) around.

The task for society and architects specifically is to move to a integrational thought of the place to live with the ecosystem. Architecture has now more than ever to ripe a part, to turn 180° to look forward to live in an already created by nature ecosystem without damaging it.

Humans as a part of nature cannot live as we do today (it is not natural), we are a piece of the great machine call earth and do to the separation of the process we are creating our own and as that happens the earth is in danger of losing theirs which has been a home to various types of life.

Ecosystems and people. Higher cities surrounded by jungle, one building one city, a great building, cities communicated by speed trains, energy from huge solar panels outside the city-building, designs of places not edifications, one hole great building for a sustainable future.

As this will happened if we make it through the global warming, humans are beginning to change our conduct towards the only known planet that we can live.

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.