In order to understand sustainability in architecture it’s needed to taken into account the following concepts:
- BASIC CONCEPTS
4 operational principles:
– The impact of human beings on natural systems
must not exceed the carrying capacity of nature.
– The use of renewable resources must not exceed
their rate of regeneration.
-The use of non-renewable resources must be
compensated by the production of renewable
resources, which will eventually have to replace
them.
-The emissions into the environment must not
exceed the absorptive capacity of the receivers.
3 pillars:
– socio-cultural
– socio-economic
– environmental
LCA (life-cycle assesment):
– the impact of a product from
its production to its dismantling. For this, it is necessary to
calculate the energy consumption and corresponding
emissions to the environment of the various processes that
make its use possible
3R:
– reduce
– reuse
– recycle
- HEALTHY BUILDINGS
the ones that have a connection between human biology and the environment, in order to achieve this they must allow:
• air quality: correct ventilation and transpiration
• water quality
• use of natural light
• thermal comfort
• noise protection
- CLIMATE-HUMAN BEING
– The energy and health of human being largely depend on the direct
effects of the environment in which he lives.
– The atmospheric conditions stimulate or depress the physical and mental
work of the man (apathy, stress, grief, illness…). That conditions are at an
optimum point within a range of specific climatic conditions.
– The human being is a thermal machine that transforms chemical energy
into mechanical energy with great heat dispersion due to its metabolism.
- SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
troughout a sustainable design we’re able to minimize the negative impacts of
constructions both on the health of the occupants and
on the environment.
- MATERIALS
Traditional materials, experienced over the centuries in traditional architecture,
guarantee conditions of greater wholesomeness and well-being compared to synthetic materials.