Speciality Sustainability by Javier Garcia German Proyect location: New York, NY
01 SPECIALITY: SUSTAINABILITY JAVIER GARCIA GERMAN
Sustainability is an issue that architects have to take responsibly, since decisions in the design process are very important for the performance of the buildings taking in consideration the environment.
A Home is not a House
Accordingly, a final project is a matter of balance between right design according climatic situations and extra accessories or technology added in order to approach a efficient configuration. Applying thermodynamic knowledge in architecture stresses the importance in to the spatial systems, to the shape, which turn into new ways of experience the architecture. It is not just about a theory but it is a way of through our everyday life can be part of a right decision. The Specialty of sustainability gave us a good taste of what is to take smart decisions in designing according climatic issues, which are also very related to a bioclimatic architecture.
A Home is not a House: The Environmental Bubble
Banham and Dallegret seem to defend a home architecture that is both hippie and ultratechnologique . Habitat joined by the environmental dimension of the space while defended by Reyner Banham for that architecture should “ disappear in environmental technology “ (The Architecture of the Well -Tempered Environment , 1969).
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