The Principles of

Sustainable Design

Sustainable Design• Sustains• Functions on sustainable energies• Lasts• Flexible• is Loved and Cherished• Endure• Functions in any situation• Add Quality to the Environment

Green Design

• Is an element of sustainable design• Integrate local climate and building resources• Create healthy interior environment• Reuse and Recycle materials• Efficiently use energy

Sustainable Design differs from Green Design

Sustainable Design Green Design

Additive Incorporatesecologically sensitive materials

Inclusive Creates healthy buildings and processes that do not negatively affect the environment

Continuing Incorporates efficient mechanical systems and high-performance technologies

Surviving but still functions primarily through the use of fossil fuels.Thriving

Adapting

Integrates the principles of green design

Sustainable Design• Become a passive and active structure that is

designed to maximize the use of sites’ natural renewable resources.

• When buildings are conceived as organisms instead of objects,

• They become part of the ecological neighborhood.

• Operate off existing site and regional renewable energies

Sustainable Design

• “Sustainable design reduces or eliminates the daily consumption of nonrenewables, reduces project costs and maintenance costs and requirements, increases user approval and user productivity, and reduces the total embodied project energy.”

• Sustainable design is green design powered by sustainable energies—functioning unplugged.

Approaching Sustainability in Design

• It needs to be dynamic and a living process.• Sustainability is not static—it is iteratively

changing, based on evolving knowledge that connects science and design.

• The design must be capable of functioning “unplugged” from the external nonrenewable energy sources and resources in order to be sustainable.

Principles for Designing Sustainably

1. Connectivity: Design to reinforce the relationship between the project, the site, the community, and the ecology. Make minimal changes to the natural system functioning. Reinforce and steward those natural characteristics specific to the place.

Principles for Designing Sustainably2. Indigenous: Design with and for what has been resident and sustainable on the site for centuries.3. Long life, loose fit: Design for future generations while reflecting past generations.

Solar Powered Stadium in Bordeaux

Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center

Principles for Designing Sustainably

The projects should meet the following criteria:• Be developed within existing urban boundaries

and within walking distance to transit options.• New projects would preferably be built on a

cleaned-up brownfield.• Use green energy and be unplugged from

nonrenewables.• Be fully useful for intended function in a natural

disaster, a blackout, or a drought.

Principles for Designing Sustainably

• Be made of materials that have a long and useful life—longer than its growth cycle—and be anchored for deconstruction (every design should be a storehouse of materials for another project).

• Use no more water than what falls on the site.• Connect impacts and wastes of the building to

useful cycles on the site and in the environment around it.

• Be part of a cycle.• Be compelling, rewarding, and desirable.

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