SUSTAINABLE TECTONICS: a conceptual framework to formulate formal structure of sustainable designs
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 10, Issue 5
Abstract
Sustainable architecture is a multi-disciplinary field concerned with buildings that are designed to respond the environmental, social and economical issues as well as architectural qualities. From this article’s point of view, many of so-called sustainable building designs only focus on external environmentally responsive techniques or figurative arbitrary aspects and rarely concentrate on the underlying characteristics of spatial and formal structure of architecture. The aim of current article is to highlight the generative power of architecture for providing sustainability through the modification of essential design layers derived from tectonic studies. The tectonics systematically determines the critical analytical factors which could be employed to evaluate the constitutive layers of architecture formal structure both in design and practice. In order to make the previously introduced characteristics and layers detectable in sustainable architecture design, the paper proposes a conceptual framework under the topic of Sustainable Tectonics to formulate formal structure of sustainable designs. This conceptual framework is taken from the article’s theoretical framework; sustaining architecture which, itself is obtained from an inquiry on interactions between two principle headings; sustainability and architecture design through grounded theory research method founded in thematic analysis and logical argumentation, it also employs the comparative and critical analysis of selected case studies in researches and practices.
Authors and Affiliations
Nezamedin Anbari Ruzbahani| PhD. Student, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST)., S. Majid Mofidi Shemirani| Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST)., Ahmad Ekhlasi| Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST).
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