Modern world seems impossible without innovative design decisions at the streets. It seems rational to apply architectural ideas to restore old items on the streets, however, not many people think about ecology when they are offered to make a new architectural thing. The idea of a good design varies from person to person.
A good design is not the one that just looks good but also needs to perform its purpose. In recent years, ecology nature of a project is one of the most important features to focus on. The intention of ecological design is to try and to eliminate any negative impact a design can have on the environment.
This means that the projects have a meaningful impact and begin making dynamic changes in the society and the relationship of the user with this ecology friendly design.
The danger of the trash which cannot be recycled by means of the natural processes has already been much discussed (Carroll 65) and the creation of the architectural items cannot be based on the materials which can lay for thousand years in the soil without changes. The green or ecology friendly architecture is based only ion the natural resources which are renewable and can be easily restored.
The so-called ecology friendly design consists of some rules and principles that need to be followed so that it can be “green”. Some of these principles include being energy efficient. This means using manufacturing processes and products that require less energy. In recent times, there has been growing interest in the construction of energy – efficient buildings along with the encouragement of making existing homes energy efficient, which would create a greater impact.
Moreover, while applying to implementation of the archeological design it is important to use the materials which do not harm nature and to apply t6o the technologies which do not pollute the environment as well. The use of the renewable materials is meant as well. Moreover, this is one of the most important conditions in order to meet the requirements for ecology-friendly design.
In terms of architecture, the attempts of architects to decrease the impact on the environment right from the beginning is based on the desire to produce the item of the building components, continuing so in the process of the construction of the building until the entire lifecycle of the building.
In recent years, public awareness has helped increase and spread the benefits of green building practices. Increasing the awareness of how individual decisions can be energy and water efficient has encouraged communities to develop sustainable design practices. Thus, it is essential to “create designs that use and reuse only the energy and resources that reside on site and within the bioregion” (Williams xxiii).
The project we have created is built on the basis of the green to cradle-to-cradle design. The best explanation of the cradle-to-cradle design is as follows, it is “commercially productive, socially beneficial, and ecologically intelligent” (McDonough, Braungart, Anastas, and Zimmerman 434).
The tenets of the cradle-to-cradle design are as follows, (1) waste equals food, (2) use current solar income, and (3) celebrate diversity. The waste equals food tenet assures that there is no waste in nature as all the organisms can contribute to the whole ecosystem by means of becoming the nutrition to soil and other types of recycling. The use current solar income tenet is based on the solar energy as the only necessary for the architectural buildings.
The celebrate diversity tenet is based on the principle that each organism has its own place, but the number of those organisms in the nature is too great. The engeers try to increase the effect from their creations by means of celebrating diversity (McDonough, Braungart, Anastas, and Zimmerman 436).
These tenets may be easily applied to the project we have created. However, before applying these tenets, it is important to consider the project and its basic characteristics. The main idea of the project is to visually connect the bench and the fence and, therefore, a vertical fence is connected to horizontal seating.
The benches create both a public seating that is more open and towards the pathway whereas the private seating is towards the opposite side, creating a space for more intimate conversations. On another side of the benches, I also created a green wall to replace the old wire mesh wall. This green wall will help to beautify the campus and purification. Each architecture design should meet particular purposes.
Such a sustainable fence will serve the major purposes within the city architecture. On the one hand, it will help make use of the space to the fullest. This is quite important as there will be no need to ‘explore’ and ‘reshape’ new spaces to create seating areas for people. On the other hand, people using this area will think of green to cradle-to-cradle design.
Admittedly, sitting in such a ‘green’ area will make young people understand that of green to cradle-to-cradle design is something real, it is something more than just a discipline or topic for a heated debate.
This fence can encourage people to become more responsible and even more reasonable. Young people who are becoming active agents of the society can get inspired by the ideas of green design and ecology friendly architecture in combination with cradle-to-cradle design. These young agents will bring to the fore ideas of sustainability which will contribute greatly to the development of the society. Of course, the fence will not reshape the world. However, it will be one of those efforts which (when combined) do make a difference.
Returning to the tenets of cradle-to-cradle design and their application to our project, the following information should be discussed. The waste equals food tenet is followed as the materials the fence is going to be built out are natural and there is no any plastic or another material which is too harmful.
Much research has been conducted in the sphere and plastic believed one of the most dangerous products for nature (Hinterthuer 108). We are not going to apply to the use of this material. The use of current solar income tenet does not directly impacts our project, however in case the benches will need additional light the lams based on the solar energy should be applied as there is no need to insert the lamps based on electricity.
The celebrate diversity tenet is met as the fence is created out of green natural resource and benches are also out of the trees which are renewable. Therefore, our project is going to improve the city as it will change an old fence with a new one and at the same time it will be ecology friendly
Works Cited
Carroll, Chris. “High-Tech Trash.” National Geographic Magazine 213.1 (2008): 64-81. Print.
Hinterthuer, Adam. “Safety Dance over Plastic.” Scientific American September, 2008. 108-111. Print.
McDonough, William, Braungart, Michael, Anastas, Paul T. and Julie B. Zimmerman. “Applying the principles engineering of green to cradle-to-cradle design.” Environmental Science & Technology 1 Dec. 2003. 434-441. Print.
Williams, Daniel Edward. Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2007. Print.