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To, K. F. Forms, buildings in design: case studies. In: CONFERENCE ON PASSIVE AND LOW ENERGY ARCHITECTURE, 20., 2003, Santiago do Chile. Anais... Santiago do Chile, 2003.
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Abstract

What is sustainable architecture? Why has sustainability become people's new focus? How can we achieve this new target and command it well in our creative world? The aim of this paper is to examine ideas of sustainability. BedZed, an urban village development is studied as an example of good practice. As a case study it shows how to design a neighborhood to meet challenges with new expectations of densification, concentration of resources and dealing with pollution. It also shows how buildings can satisfy the sustainability agenda and the new environmentalism. So what may be the future architecture design? The most important part of design is about creativity. Buildings are different from each other in their forms and systems. The basic point is that in architectural and urban design, the human being as the measure of all things should be the guiding principle in designing the built environment. "Creativity is not expressed as the invention of new forms, but as the re-formulation of exiting constraints" [1].This study explains that those forms or systems not necessarily newly invented, but have been within our architectural systems for a long time. To be able to practice sustainability one should start by recognizing all those architectural forms and conventional systems, plus other newly-invented technologies. Our work should not depend on self-justifications or on references to the others. It is presented on the basis of the facts: economic data, building and zoning codes, consumer behaviour, corporate organisation and work habits.
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