RESPONSIBLE ARCHITECTURE
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.
- Juhani Pallasmaa
Building sustainably is building holistically and responsibly while applying building science knowledge. We design buildings that are durable, easy to maintain, symbiotically related to the outdoors, with healthy indoors and invigorating spaces flooded with natural light, while maintaining a high level of energy and water efficiency, and clean air.
TRIPPLE BOTTOM LINE
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
- Daniel Libeskind
Tripple Bottom Line (3BL) = PEOPLE – NATURE - PROFIT
Designing for the triple bottom line creates a sustainable strategic advantage.
We transform sustainable architecture from transactional to relational, and replace the idea of “clients’ with “fans, followers and friends”
THREE Rs OF SUSTAINABILITY
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space … On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.
- Zaha Hadid
Creativity and Building Science knowledge empower us to apply the three R’s without compromising quality, function or aesthetics.
•Reduce: to use fewer resources in the first place. It takes resources to manufacture, transport, and dispose of products, so reduction minimizes the use of new resources.
•Reuse: Use materials more than once in their original form instead of throwing them away after each use. Reuse keeps new resources from being used for a while longer, and old resources from entering the waste stream.
•Recycle: Converting waste materials into new products, changing them from their original form by physical and chemical processes. Although recycling uses energy, it helps to prevent new resources from being used and old materials from entering the waste stream.