Green building (also known as sustainable building) refers to a structure and using process that is environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle: from sitting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, till the demolition. This requires close cooperation of the design team, the architects, the engineers, and the client at all project stages.
To create an ideal coordination between all parties, a dynamic process called the ‘integrated design process’, (IDP), has been developed. Larsson explained that the “[…] IDP is designed to allow the client and other stakeholders to develop and realize clearly defined and challenging functional, environmental and economic goals and objectives” (Larsson 2002)*.
As not all buildings are complexes of electro-mechanical systems, architecture remains the main tool in the hand of the architect to deal with the local environment surrounding the structure. Simply put, by the full awareness of the local environment a user may easily create architecture without architects that manages to erect a suitable and comfortable shelter; that is the so-called Passive Buildings. The passive buildings are meant of using the consequences of internal spaces and the building material and technologies to improve the thermal behavior of the structure in temperature Gain/Lose process.
There are different rating systems to classify a certain structure to stand on ’How sustainable the building is’.
Having explained the above, the next post will interpret such information on the Rock Village architectural drawings given to the planning team ; my observations on the concept.
*Larsson, N (2002) The integrated design process. Report on a national workshop, Ottawa
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