SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
The new CLT extension to The Nature Conservancy’s Oregon headquarters was designed to visually express the TNC’s work and to connect staff and visitors’s to nature.
Designed by SHAU Architects, the timber library is elevated to provide community meeting spaces, play areas below and relaxed reading areas.
Designed by Studio Saxe, the Athletic Centre in Nosara, Costa Rica was designed as a series of pre-fabricated buildings, nestled amongst the trees.
Anna Heringer Architecture designed three hostels handcrafted from bamboo, rammed earth and stones to showcase locally sourced materials.
This community center was designed to be adaptable for future growth and a focus on using recycled materials.
Nature Discovery Park is a rooftop urban farm, a biodiversity museum and a sustainability themed education park in the centre of Hong Kong.
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Through our articles, Eco Edition explores the latest and the most inspiring sustainable and eco-friendly architecture covering a comprehensive list of categories to ignite your imagination, including: passive design, passive solar heating, passive solar cooling, thermal mass, insulation, biophilic design, sustainable building materials, recycled building materials, passive house or passivhaus buildings, low embodied energy, carbon neutral, sustainable, eco friendly, energy efficient homes, all electric homes, circular economy and many more.
From mud brick homes, to timber skyscrapers, tiny homes, adaptive reuse projects and everything in between, we explore creative ideas and uncover the beauty of sustainable architecture across the world.
What are the principles of sustainable architecture? Sustainable architecture or sustainable design aims to minimise the negative environmental impact of homes and buildings by efficiency, moderation and consideration in the use of materials, energy and water usage, appropriateness of the site for the building’s requirements and the ecosystem at large.
Sustainable architecture uses an integrative approach to the consumption of energy, water and ecological conservation in the design and construction of the built environment.
Why is sustainable architecture important? Architects, designers, home renovators and builders have a responsibility of building in a manner which helps to sustain the earth, rather than continue to damage it and deplete it of all its life-giving, natural resources.
Many architects, interiors, designers, companies and institutions of all sizes are working towards integrating a number of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into their projects and daily operations. There are 17 goals and they were created to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. Read about it here.
Sustainable architecture is also referred to as eco architecture or green architecture.
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