Challenging 'best practice' subtropical design


Autoria(s): Birkeland, Janis
Contribuinte(s)

Kennedy, Rosemary

Data(s)

2008

Resumo

Genuine sustainability would require that urban development provide net positive social and ecological gains to compensate for previous lost natural capital and carrying capacity. Thus far, green buildings do not contribute to net sustainability. While they reduce relative resource consumption, they consume vast quantities of materials, energy and water.i Moreover, they replace land and ecosystems with structures that, at best, ‘mimic’ ecosystems. Elsewhere, the author has proposed a‘sustainability standard’, where development would leave the ecology, as well as society, better off after construction than before.ii To meet this standard, a development would need to add natural and social capital beyond what existed prior to development. Positive DesignTM or Positive DevelopmentTM is that which expands both the ecological base (life support system) and the public estate (equitable access to means of survival). How to achieve this is discussed in Positive Development (Birkeland 2008). This paper examines how net positive gains can be achieved in a ubtropical as well as temperate environment.

Formato

application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/25985/

Publicador

Centre for Subtropical Design

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/25985/2/25985.pdf

http://www.subtropicaldesign.org.au/images/stories/pdf/events/janis_birkeland/nrp.pdf

Birkeland, Janis (2008) Challenging 'best practice' subtropical design. In Kennedy, Rosemary (Ed.) Subtropical Cities 2008 Conference - From Fault-Lines to Straight-Lines - Subtropical Urbanism in 20-20, 3 - 6 September 2008, Australia, Queensland, Brisbane.

Direitos

Copyright 2008 the author.

Fonte

QUT Business School; Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering; School of Design

Palavras-Chave #120104 Architectural Science and Technology (incl. Acoustics Lighting Structure and Ecologically Sustainable Design) #Sustainable design #Sustainable building #Positive Development #Ecoretrofitting #Living walls #Subtropical design #Green Scaffolding #Green Space Wall #Ecological space
Tipo

Conference Paper