Thursday, July 7, 2011

Sustainable architecture is not stepping back

Most people talk about the subject “sustainable architecture”. The ideas are spreading like a thunder in the society and everybody questioning what is sustainable architecture. Whole world has opened their eye open the climatic issues like global warming and global cooling. People use to write and make discussion to overcome the environmental issues to make the world better.
But the solution should not be going backward to the prehistoric scenario where the people lived inside of the caves and ate their own food. The upgrade of the building fabric is there to help the civilization to go forward and make it more convenient to the user.
But yet, most of the sustainable architecture oriented researches are carried on the fields to improve the thermal comfort or reducing the mechanical energy consumption of the building. Those research solutions are always going backward and introduced another system which had been used in vernacular architecture where the design decisions came from nowhere.
So the theme idea is to go back and set back to the vernacular scenario and gain the sustainable architecture. However the situation is completely worse when an architect applies the vernacular architecture tot the modern requirement of a house. As well the sustainable architects are providing solutions go make the building more sustainable but not functional for the modern cay requirements.
Although these solutions are far more practical for the sustainable architecture they are so far beyond from the general requirement of a house. People came to see whet the outcome of the sustainable architecture. But the real outcome of the sustainable architecture is stepping back to the vernacular architecture and stay with mosquitoes.

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