GREEN ARCHITECTURE AS AN OFFSHOOT OF ECOLOGICAL DESIGN
Abstract
Sustainable building is an important architectural concept in the 21st century. The key emphasis on the design of the building lies in recycled material, energy-saving, and nature conservation. It is not only beneficial to human health but also protective for the earth, fulfilling the responsibility of sustainable development. This trend emerged in Europe, and then spread to Japan and America. And it has become the mainstream of the architecture in the 21st century. Green architecture strives to minimize the number of resources consumed in the building's construction, use and operation, as well as curtailing the harm done to the environment through the emission, pollution and waste of its components. To design, construct, operate and maintain buildings energy, water and new materials are utilized as well as amounts of waste causing negative effects to health and environment. In order to limit these effects and design environmentally sound and resource efficient buildings; "Green Building Systems" must be introduced, clarified, understood and practiced. The paper aims at indicating these ecological offshoots of sustainability which incorporate the scope of almost every aspect of human life.
Keywords
Green-Building Systems, Sustainable Buildings, Natural Buildings, Living Architecture, Renewable Resources, Eco-Design, Eco-Friendly Architecture, Earth-Friendly Architecture, Environmental Architecture, Natural Architecture