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| Id | 870 | |
| Author | Ibrahim I. | |
| Title | Socio environmental impact in eco-architecture | |
| Reference | Ibrahim I.; Socio environmental impact in eco-architecture ;WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment vol:128.0 issue: page:185.0 |
Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78549243024&doi=10.2495%2fARC100161&partnerID=40&md5=dd79c8001a27bcf27e0bb20ee0b2c218 |
| Abstract | The interest of this paper is to focus on the social community and its built environment as an important part of creating ecological design, satisfying the communitys social culture needs and achieving eco-architecture. The social impact assessment (SIA) is an important indicator in the age of information, communication technologies and globalization that affects the future of architecture. The social environment is different to the natural environment because it reacts in anticipation of change, but can adapt in reasoned ways to changing circumstances if this is part of the planning process, and there is the opportunity to participate in designing our future. This paper addresses itself to that modified challenge to achieve eco architecture. Firstly it attempts to define and clarify the SIA as a framework for the comprehensive understanding of environmental experience, regarding its variables and how it could be different depending on social cultures. Secondly it applies this idea to architectural projects that have won prizes at the AGKA awards for sustainable projects in developing countries, adopting the concept of our need to preserve the balance of nature. We consider Masdar, the zero carbon city in the UAE, in our case study with attention being given to the important relationship between physical design and social behaviour regarding eco-architecture. © 2010 WIT Press. |
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| The interest of this paper is to focus on the social community and its built environment as an important part of creating ecological design, satisfying the community's social culture needs and achieving eco-architecture. . | This movement aims to create environmentally friendly, energy-efficient buildings and developments by effectively managing natural resources. . | Negative environmental impact can be mitigated through use of sustainably harvested building materials and finishes, materials with low toxicity in manufacturing and installation, and recycling building materials while on the job site. . | Measures for ecological buildings can be divided into four areas, reducing energy in use, minimising external pollution and environmental damage reducing embodied energy and resource depletion, minimising internal pollution and damage to health. . | 5.2 Energy issues The benefits from the energy-efficient siting and design of buildings are economic (saving money), social (reducing fuel poverty); and ecological (reducing resource exploitation and emissions). . | To reduce embodied energy, without compromising longevity or efficiency: reuse existing buildings and structures wherever possible (provided their energy costs in use can be reduced to an acceptable level), design buildings for long life, with ease of maintenance and adaptability to changing needs, construct buildings and infrastructure out of local and low- energy materials where possible, reduce the proportion of high rise, detached or single-storey developments, design layouts which minimise the extent to roadway and utility pipe work per dwelling. . | Accommodations are to be made for recycling and energy efficiency and measures are to be taken to relate the form of building to a harmonious relationship between the inhabitants and nature. . | green design emphasizes a number of new environmental, resource and occupant health concerns, Reduce human exposure to noxious materials, conserve non-renewable energy and scarce materials, minimize life-cycle ecological impact of energy and materials used, use renewable energy and materials that are sustainably harvested, protect and restore local air, water, soils, flora and fauna, support pedestrians, bicycles, mass transit and other alternatives to fossil-fuelled vehicles. . | In addition to social, economic, and environmental health, sustainable communities are about the participation of all elements of society in decisionmaking processes. . | In addition to social, economic, and environmental health, sustainable communities are about the participation of all elements of society in decision-making processes. . |
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