Role of Architecture in the Enviornment

       Architecture plays a significant role in the environment. These days architecture has become so blurred inside and outside they are practically one in the same; interior spaces feel exterior and vice versa. There is no clear division between artificial and natural. We are seeing more and more how powerful the environment and vegetation we use to complement our architecture enriches the city.

Likewise, Mostafavi says the “essential basis of a new form of creative imaging” lies with the ecosystem. Ecological urbanism “utilizes old and new methods, tools and technologies in a cross-disciplinary and collaborative approach toward urbanism through the lens of ecology. “ In order to move forward and explore the relationship of architecture in the environment we need to tap in to collaboration with other disciplines. Which we are seeing more and more today.

We’ve gotten to a point where the environment itself is engineered to our ecological urbanism ideals. Now we design with the energy, climate, sustainable materials etc all in mind. Meanwhile these practices contribute to the cutting down of our carbon footprint, are more efficient, leaving less of a negative impact on the environment. We do have a responsibility to put together our resources with other disciplines and collaborate to create architecture that compliments its surrounding ecology in a positive way.

image of Jean Renaudies housing complex in Paris