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How is sustainability shape and change the design decision of architect?
One theme: sustainability
Three examples: Garden by the Bay(Singapore), EcoARK(Taipei), One Central Park(Sydney)
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How is sustainability shape and change the design decision of the architect?
Sustainable architecture aims at minimizing adverse environmental impact on buildings
by efficiently using moderate materials and energy. It is durable in that the development space
and the ecosystem at large are taken into consideration before a project is undertaken. There is a
global awareness on conserving the environment and waste recycling little do we know the
amount of carbon waste our houses emit. To be able to come up with a sustainable architectural
design the architecture has to consider choosing the right form and orientation this aims at what
side of the building is exposed to the environment thus allowing sunlight penetration this is only
beneficial in temperate areas but when it comes to tropical areas the orientation will be better if
the building faced away from direct sunlight (Avgeriou, Stal & Hilliard, 2013). Architects are
also to un...