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    This document discusses principles of sustainable design, including respecting place and the ecosystem. It describes considering the biological, climatological, geological, and topographical features of a region in design. Regionalism means using local materials and respecting the natural solutions and features of a place. Orientation of buildings should increase energy efficiency by considering sun paths and wind. Development should not harm prime agricultural land, dangerous or unsuitable areas, delicate environments, or disrupt animal habitats. Design should integrate with the natural cycles and aim to be restorative rather than destructive.

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    This document discusses principles of sustainable design, including respecting place and the ecosystem. It describes considering the biological, climatological, geological, and topographical features of a region in design. Regionalism means using local materials and respecting the natural solutions and features of a place. Orientation of buildings should increase energy efficiency by considering sun paths and wind. Development should not harm prime agricultural land, dangerous or unsuitable areas, delicate environments, or disrupt animal habitats. Design should integrate with the natural cycles and aim to be restorative rather than destructive.

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    Lecture 5

    Principles of sustainable design (2)

    3- Respect for The Respect for Place - The ecosystem principle:


    Place Describe the complex interplay of:
    - biological climatologically
    - geological
    - topographical
    - Regionalism (Image of the place) “Architecture through building design has draw out
    the feature of these places ”

    Regionalism- Being local is Designed with local materials and with respect for the place.
    Regionalism- Solutions out of place, Natural Solutions , Technological fixes.

    - Problem of miss-place, individualism.


    The International Style is the name of a major architectural style that developed in the 1920s
    and 1930s and strongly related to Modernism and Modern architecture. It was first defined
    by Museum of Modern Art curators Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson in 1932, based
    on works of architecture from the 1920s.
    - Orientation
    Orientation is the positioning of a building in relation to seasonal variations in the sun’s path as
    well as prevailing wind patterns. Good orientation can increase the energy efficiency home
    design, making it more comfortable to live in and cheaper to run.

    The land has much greater use for humanity:

    For example, building on agriculture lands, it is a crime against the coming generations to build
    on prime agriculture land, in such case the land has greater value for the humanity than just
    building a structure on it, where such structure can be built in another place without harming
    such resource.
    The land is dangerous or unsuitable for human use:

    Some places could be quite dangerous to host a building. Buildings in such places are considered
    as a non responsible action. For example areas that are exposed to floods, earthquakes or other
    sorts of danger are not suitable for building structures for it.
    The land is too delicate and sensitive for human use:
    Some places should be treated in a sensitive way; where construction should be done with the
    preserve of the site as much as possible. Trees should be protected. The surrounding nature
    should be respected more than that. The site should be left in better conditions than how it was
    found. Bob Berkebile said ''how can we be restorative?''
    The land is being used already by another animal that cannot co-exist successfully with
    human:

    Most of today's human development occurs with no respect to boundaries. Boundaries can
    define what is wild and what is developed. In the ecosystem, there are lots of creatures that live
    on boundaries or move across boundaries to another place. The progressive development has
    no respect for such creatures. Such development prevent them from living side to side with
    human .It threaten their lives or existence.
    4-The respect for the cycle of Life -The ecosystem principle
    Nature doesn't produce waste, waste= food.

    - Paul Hawken discussed was a restorative economy


    instead of a destructive one.Where products we create
    can contribute to the birth of something else .Such thing
    can assure integration with the cycle of life.

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