The marriage between architecture and sustainability. Algae based towers a new proposal for tower design in egypt

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Spring 5-28-2019

Abstract

From the Parisian “worker gardens,” to the “community gardens” of New York going through Muscovite “vegetable squares”, these new ideas, aware of the emergency to reduce our fuel consumption and the necessity to modify our behavior facing the climatic changes. Looking for a positive energetic assessment, the contemporary city aims within fifteen years at producing cleanly and intensively more energy than it consumes. It develops energy by biomass, photovoltaic cells, green walls, green roofs and other renewable energies. The architecture has to be in the service of this new green issues and approaches. Green technology is the key issue to avoid these doomsday scenarios. It shows us that when different ideas inspired by the science of ecology are used as a source of imagery, it expands not only the communicative power of the building art, but their social relevance as well. The new ecological architecture is the architecture using building performance as a guiding design principle and adopting a new list of performance-based priorities for the design of cities, buildings, landscapes and infrastructures. This new kind of architecture places broadly defined performance above form-making; it utilizes the digital technologies of quantitative and qualitative performance-based simulation to offer a comprehensive new approach to the design of the built environment. In the historical development from static to dynamic perception of space there is always a change in the concept of architectural style.

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