Tag: Sustainable materials
Sustainable Design in Architecture: Success or Failure?
What is meant by Sustainability? A basic that one might relate to sustainability is the idea of using renewable resources. Though this is just one of how sustainability can be achieved, similar to recycling material in different, innovative, and environmentally friendly ways. It is more about the judicial use of existing resources while utilizing renewable…
Green Urbanism: Magnificent Cities For The Future
The depletion of natural energy sources, city overpopulation, increased carbon footprint, physical, and biological pollution, as well as global warming, with all of its effects on the quality of life, are the most pressing challenges of the twenty-first century. Large settlements, which are characterised by high population and development densities, will be most impacted in…
Lightweight Architecture: Innovative Materials and Construction Techniques
Introduction The main objective of a building is to support live loads. In the majority of cases, the dead load of a particular building can be hefty enough. The ratio of a structure’s dead load to its live load determines how lightweight the building is. The smaller this ratio gets, the lighter the building is.…
