Book chapter
Meio ambiente: encontro entre arquitetura e sustentabilidade [Built environment: where architecture meets sustainability]
Estudos Urbanos: uma abordagem interdisciplinar da cidade contemporanea, pp.135-146
ANAP
2015
Abstract
The built environment is a territory of intellectual achievements. It is imprecise and variable, dependent on technology and social skills. The concept of sustainability, as used to qualify the environment and actions, establishes a relationship between space and production, connecting factors related to financial costs and profit, material and immaterial. Architecture also relates to ideas, but it is based upon the process of designing spatial and temporal order, and it materialises itself through constructing places for human activity, being subject to the application of appropriate techniques. This is the reasoning for a convergent discourse, which relates built spaces and their interaction with living things – vegetal and animal. This chapter discusses the built environment as a territory for life, sustainability as a direction, and architecture as the art combining built environment and construction. The objective is, therefore, to delineate common points on the definition of architecture, sustainability, and built environment, in a contemporary context. More specifically, to define a possible universe for these concepts to be used in architectural design education. It is suggested that concepts of bioclimatic architecture is a direction for an intelligent design, which qualifies architecture as art, adapted do the local environment while promoting sustainability.
Details
- Title
- Meio ambiente: encontro entre arquitetura e sustentabilidade [Built environment: where architecture meets sustainability]
- Authors
- Heitor da Costa Silva (Author) - Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio GrandeSilvia Tavares (Author) - Lincoln University
- Contributors
- Sandra Medina Benini (Editor)Jeane Aparecida Rombi de Godoy Rosin (Editor)
- Publication details
- Estudos Urbanos: uma abordagem interdisciplinar da cidade contemporanea, pp.135-146
- Publisher
- ANAP
- Organisation Unit
- Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems; School of Law and Society; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Bioclimatic and Sociotechnical Cities Lab
- Language
- Portuguese
- Record Identifier
- 99611907602621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
Metrics
8 Record Views