Open AccessSustainability from Theory to Practice: An Architectural Analysis of Some Principles of Sustainability in Buildings
Author(s) -
Ana-Maria Dabija
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/960/3/032005
Subject(s) - sustainability , architecture , architectural engineering , process (computing) , resource (disambiguation) , vernacular architecture , sustainable development , built environment , environmental resource management , business , environmental ethics , process management , engineering , computer science , political science , civil engineering , economics , ecology , geography , law , philosophy , computer network , archaeology , biology , operating system
According to the Brundtland Report, a sustainable approach should be resource efficient (“development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”). How is this definition applied to architecture? And when did it occur? Strange as it may seem, the preoccupations for a sustainable environment did not appear in the past decades. It is as old as the building process itself: vernacular architecture can be interpreted as a process of building, taking into account the impact of the rules of nature on the environment; religious, monumental, civil or industrial architecture might have components that provide sustainability, if they meet some specific conditions. The paper aims to present some considerations of the architectural evolution of the concept of “sustainability”.