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Built Form Impacts

The document discusses sustainable built forms and environmental damage caused by unsustainable construction. It outlines several approaches to sustainable design, including conventional, eco-efficiency, cradle-to-cradle, restorative, and regenerative design. Unsustainable buildings negatively impact the environment through all stages from raw material extraction to construction waste. The document proposes developing sustainable buildings using alternative passive design and materials to reduce these impacts. It provides examples of sustainable buildings like the Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre in South Africa and SUDU housing in Ethiopia that utilize local and natural materials passively in their construction.

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Built Form Impacts

The document discusses sustainable built forms and environmental damage caused by unsustainable construction. It outlines several approaches to sustainable design, including conventional, eco-efficiency, cradle-to-cradle, restorative, and regenerative design. Unsustainable buildings negatively impact the environment through all stages from raw material extraction to construction waste. The document proposes developing sustainable buildings using alternative passive design and materials to reduce these impacts. It provides examples of sustainable buildings like the Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre in South Africa and SUDU housing in Ethiopia that utilize local and natural materials passively in their construction.

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A SOLUTION FOR

SUSTAINABLE BUILT FORMS

shahanaz jaleel

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m.arch

AIM
To for formulate a solution for sustainable built forms.

ISSUE

Unsustainable built forms and environmental damage


(generic issue)

CURRENT APPROACHES IN DESIGN

The built environment as a system comparing the different concepts


Conventional

Single issue response compliance focused.


Human-oriented only design (Kellert, 2004).
Resource-intensive.
Limited, but increasing, focus on energy efficiency and individual
building performance.
Use of building rating tools to measure
performance, such as Green Star.

Eco-efficiency

Single issue response.


individual building performance.
Red. negative environment impact.
Red. of activity footprint.
Red. of energy intensity of goods & services.
Enhanced material recyclability.
Maximised use of sustainable resources (Birkeland, 2002)

Cradle-to-cradle

Focused on positive environmental outcomes.


Focused on the process rather than specifically looking at buildings,
humans or ecosystems.
Waste is seen as potential resource.
Emphasis on living systems and the creation of producing and cycling
systems (McDonough, 2005).
Products should either have no waste or be 100% recyclable.

Restorative design

Focused on positive environmental outcomes.


Understands buildings as existing within a wider environmental context

Regenerative design

Focused on positive environmental outcomes.


Employs a flexible approach to building (Natural Logic Inc, 2003).
Uses advanced building techniques that emphasise the simplest
solutions (Natural Logic Inc, 2003).
Buildings are considered as elements of the landscape, rather than
as individual objects.
Buildings are responsive to the local environment (Lyle, 1993).
May incorporate strategies for positive psychological outcomes,
such as: the use of vernacular design (to add to a sense of place
and to provide climatically appropriate design); and the use of
biophilic design (the use of forms from nature) (Kellert, 2004).

Integrated approach
Coordination of planning and management activities associated with land use and land resources
(including buildings, transport, urban design and infrastructure) to achieve additional value.
May result in regenerative, restorative, eco-efficient or conventional outcomes.
United Nations Division for Sustainable Development (2004)

URBAN FORM directly affects Habitat


Ecosystems
endangered species
water quality through land consumption
habitat fragmentation
replacement of natural cover with impervious surfaces
urban form affects travel behavior, which, in turn, affects air quality;
premature loss of farm-land, wetlands, and open space; soil pollution
and contamination; global climate;and noise (Cervero 1998)
growing evidence from around the world indicates that, owing to our
excessive use of fossil fuels, especially in affluent countries, greenhouse
gas concentrations are accumulating at an alarming rate.
we need to act collectively to alter our energy-dependent lifestyles.
Urgent changes are needed not only in our behavior but also in the
design of the built form

ENVIRONMENTAL ECNOMIC SOCIAL AND CULTURAL BENEFITS

Unsustainable buildings not only affect the buildings


themselves but the built environment also

ISSUE

Building configuration?
Technology?
Material?
Passive design solution?

Unsustainable built forms and environmental damage


mainly due to use of unsustainable materials

ISSUE

The environmental effects range from

the stage of raw material procurement


Material processing industries
Built environmental impacts during the operational phase of the building:

Solar gain and induced air conditioning

uncomfortable environment in the surrounding public realm due the glare.


The construction waste after the shell life/ use of the building

quarrying

Construction waste

Sustainable Solutions

To what extent can we develop sustainable buildings in the present


context? Is there a solution?
The Need for a right approach!!!!
Alternative passive design technologies
Alternative materials - reducing glazing, aluminum composite panel,
etc.

EXAMPLE FOR A CONTEXT RESPONSIVE SUSTAINABLE BUILDING

LITRATURE CASE STUDY

Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre , SA


Peter Rich Architects
entrance to the Mapungubwe
National Park located in northeast South Africa near the borders
with Zimbabwe
strong architectural experience
-one that fits seamlessly into its
Earthy landscape

Traditional building techniques


use of locally produced brick,
stone from local quarries and
wooden secondary
sun-shading structures

SUSTAINABLE
ETHIOPIA

URBAN

DWELLING

UNIT

(SUDU),

demonstrates the possibility to construct multi-storey buildings using


only soil and stone.

Combines timbrel vaults and compressed earth blocks


No use of steel, reinforced concrete or even wood to support floors,
ceilings and roofs.
The SUDU could be a game-changer for African cities, where
population grows fast and building materials are scarce.

The timbrel vaults (made of layers of slender bricks on a bed of rapidset concrete) of the various pavilions rise from the land like natural
elements. The slightly sloping ground makes them look even more like
natural outcrops.
sloping terrain is an integral part of the architectural design
providing viewpoints along the paved route set between dry-stone
walls and from the terraced seating carved out of the hillside.

The stone cladding of the roofs and


most of the walls echoes the colours
of the surrounding savannah
DOMED VOLUMES
TIMBREL VAULT PAVILLIONS

NATURAL STONE CLADDING


References to vernacular and traditional african architecture blend
here perfectly with contemporary design and materials.

Timbrel
vault
reinvented by Zurich
University cardboard
formwork technique
build up formwork
out of pallets and
computer-cut
cardboard

Light plays a key role:


filters through the glazing on
the sidewalls of the domed
volumes, streaming into the
spacious interior of the main
timbrel-vaulted pavilion

Creates dappled patterns as it


filters through the natural
timber slats of metal framed
pergolas.

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