ISSN 2455-5045, ISI Impact Factor: 0.763

VOLUME 01 NO. 01 OCTOBER 2014:

Title:          Sustainable Development through Architecture - A Reflection
Authors:      Shruti H. Kapur
Abstract:     Sustainable architecture has arisen as an effort in architectural design since last decades. It can be interpreted as an approach to architectural design that minimizes resource consumption, utilizes natural energy, assuages environmental damages, and improves human health. More decisively, it can also be considered as a tool to raising people’s awareness of environmental protection or in other words a reaction to mother nature, which always cohabits and appreciates manhood. The most important aspect of sustainability is identification of different areas which escalate its power in architecture world, namely i) site selection, ii) energy consumption, iii) indoor environmental quality, iv) water consumption, v) waste disposal etc. This paper will review the methods and technologies in few of these areas that should be retained to create the sustainability of the built environment of Auroville. This paper will also explore the various dimensions of sustainable living, practices and planning processes in Auroville. It will emphasize the innovations and sustainable processes of the experimental community and highlight the day-to-day operations from the individual level, to the organizational and how they are centered around green practices.

Keywords:   Sustainable Architecture, Sustainable Technology, Material, Consumption, Waste, Green Practices
Pages:          01-05

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