Principle of sustainable design

Sustainability Principles for Sustainable design

1. Principles of sustainable design

2. What is Sustainable design ? It is nothing but environmental design ,which is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of social, economic, and ecological sustainability.

3. The Principles of sustainable design The Human vitality principle The ecosystem/bioregion principle The”Seven Generations”principle The Holistic thinking principle The Biomimicry principle The conservation and renewable principle

4. 1.The Human vitality principle This principle about respect for people Sustainable design endeavors to create the healthiest, most nourishing places possible for people for people without diminishing the ability of nature to provide nourishing places for the rest of the creation and for our own species in the future.

5. Respect for people reminds us that sustainable design is about creating healthy habitats- for us and the rest of the creation. This principle is about honoring diversity and giving control back to people for their environments and personal comfort.

6. “The biggest tragedy is not the waste of Natural resources, through it is tragic. The Biggest tragedy is the waste of human Resources”

7. 2.The Ecosystem principle This principle is about respect for place it has sub principles i.e Adaption to the local environment. Sustainable is built on the idea of regionalism, it honors the difference that exist between places, both on the macro level, with climate regions, and on the micro level, with topographical and biological differences.

8. The philosophy of sustainable design rejects the notion that “our buildings should look the same and be built the same in any region regardless of whether we have the technological know-how and resources to do so”. Indeed, it demands that our buildings respond to place in fundamental ways-from the level of the site to that of climate and bioregion .

9. this principle says that we have to use the local sources for construction of houses. “ Traditional cultures and buildings have been inspired by places ”

10. Eg: Sustainable school building made of bamboo in Bali(indonesia)

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