Sustainable+Design



= __**INTRODUCTION:**__ =

The Concept of Sustainable Design dates back to the 70's, and is considered a reaction to the global environmental crisis, the depletion of natural resources, ecosystem damage and loss of biodiversity.

Felling of Trees

Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico Dead fish

Sustainable design is a term that is used to create environmental awareness and to create products that satisfy human needs saving and recycling materials, saving energy. It is a term used in engineering, arquitectutura, general design and the same regardless of the nomenclature adopted (Environmental Design, Sustainable Design, Ecodesign etc.) Refers to the same.



= __**SUSTAINABLE DESIGN.**__ =

Sustainable design is a sensitivity to the environment, is an ecological consciousness that invites recycling, saving energy, and conservation of natural resources and sustainability. Speaking of Sustainable Design, is necessary to refer to the definition of does the designer, engineer, architect Ezio Manzini.

For Ezio Martini, Director of Unit Design and Innovation for Sustainability in Milan-Italy, Sustainable Design "is a strategic design of the activity that transforms existing systems and creating new materials characterized by low energy and high intensity possibility for the regeneration of life contexts. "

Sustainable design is also often called "Environmental Design", "Ecological Design", "Social Design", "Eco Design" or "Sustainable Design", but whatever one calls it refers to a philosophy of reduction negative environmental impacts when creating objects or services according to social and ecological sustainability.

Cardboard Chair Straight from recycled material Masdar. Green City Project. Designed by Foster & Partners British group

Sustainable design can range from simple everyday objects to buildings or cities. The same applies to architecture, landscaping, engineering, urban planning and design in general, including here in graphic design, industrial design or fashion design.

= __**PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGNS**__ =

- Design high quality products and that they are sustainable in the long term.

- Create objects, services and buildings to improve the quality of life by eliminating or reducing environmental damage.

Mobile station for electric vehicles that use solar energy

- Use of materials with low energy intensity in reference to energy production systems.

- Use of non-toxic or recycled.

Bath receipt turned into furniture

- Create products that are major innovations that change the user behavior and acceptance are the same.

- Create programs and public and private policies for Sustainable Design, as with the Center for Sustainable Development (CSD), which is responsible for developing or spreading the sustainability of the product and its impact on the sustainability of innovation-related solutions, products, technologies, services, projects and training in finding high-quality results.

This center is known internationally and works with partners in Europe, North America and Asia.

- Generate public awareness to help reduce negative environmental impacts, example of this use of bicycles or public transport to replace the frequent use of private cars that sometimes carry a single person.



= __**SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE.**__ =

Following the popularization ever increasing the principles of sustainable design, architects and engineers have joined them, and building projects have been developed based on these principles, and the International Union of Architecture (UIA) has signed an agreement to achieve a sustainable future.

House tires House door in the 1000 Seoul

In the agreement signed by the International Union of Architecture, the same member nations pledged to:

1. Environmental sustainability must be practicing professional responsibility.

2. Educate builders, consumers and generate public awareness of the importance of Sustainable Design.

3. Change and encourage public and private policies for Sustainable Design.

When we talk about sustainable architecture is bound to mention Cameron Sinclair, and his statements about open source architecture to house the world, where he is in favor of projects that are aimed at improving the living conditions of the poor, can not be for personal use, but must be transferred and adapted to the regions. He, in his search for support and sponsorship for their ideas about what should be the architecture, founded an organization called "Foundation Architecture for Humanity", and thanks to this foundation has been able to improve quality of buildings and living in the regions poorest in the world, such as Kosovo and Nigeria, which has created mobile clinics to treat patients with AIDS or decent shelter for the poorest.

Architect Cameron Sinclair. School Project in Ethiopia

On the Internet page, We see Cameron Sinclair speak about their ideas and projects related to Architecture for Humanity. Here we see that the main problems in its discretion to resolve the architecture are related to global poverty, and for this we must face the financial problem, so that, through a website design and funding request to facilitated the creation of mobile clinics, schools and shelters for regions like Kosovo worthy, Nigeria, Ethiopia. Sinclair is the idea that community problems are solved more easily when there is a social commitment, when the inhabitants of that community involved and makes part of the solution, and the architect is only a facilitator. For the importance of a draft is that it is constructed to function regardless of whether it is used for debris or recyclable materials. The video mentioned main message transmitted as Sinclair attempts to create social awareness and humanitarian in his listeners.

= __**CONCLUSIONS:**__ =

Sustainable design, green or green tries to make the environment all the irreversible damage we have caused through the various objects and buildings that we built to improve our "quality of life", without realizing it as it lay to cause ecological damage. It is a design inspired by recycling and conservatism, on energy saving and so on.

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