Sustainability: it helps for the human not the earth
I am not sure
the human technology helps the nature environmental or it harmful to it.
Because if we want the environmental keep “natural” that every moment from the
human is bad for the earth. But on another hand, sustainability is only helping
the human. Because during the million years the earth has been in the much
worse environmental situation. It can recover by itself. The human history is
only thousand years, it is a very short period.
When we talk
about how the architects can play a role in the sustainability that is kind of
hard. Because once it needs construction is will do something bad for the
natural. The role we play in this game is to reduce the harm during the
building process. The good example is Bosco Verticale.
“The Vertical Forest increases biodiversity. It
promotes the formation of an urban ecosystem where various plant types create a
separate vertical environment, but which works within the existing network,
able to be inhabited by birds and insects (with an initial estimate of 1,600
specimens of birds and butterflies). In this way, it constitutes a spontaneous
factor for repopulating the city’s flora and fauna.” The building is to try to add more natural
elements into the building that we can be getting more closer to the natural
environment.
This idea of a biodiverse ecosystem on buildings reminded me of the efforts that cities are currently implementing for the future such as mandates that requires new construction and existing building to include sustainable approaches such as green roofs, pv panel, etc. I think it's to see this forward thinking in government and a great way to influence other cities to do the same.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like the least an architect can do is create architecture that fosters natural flora and fauna to thrive. I am not sure how Bosco Verticale addressed sustainability elsewhere in the design, but it seems almost good enough that the building successfully incorporates these deep balconies which house diverse plantlife. Is that good enough?
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