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www.natbrasil.org.br/sustentabilidade.htm

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This article explains a collective experience of doing architecture in a co-operative
and interdisciplinary way, inserting users and community in the process. Methodology:
Management of participative design, through team’s internal immersions, opens activities such as collective project process (Charrette) and technical seminaries. Results: creation and application of a participative architectural design methodology; integration of professionals, institutions and universities; divulgation at mass communication topics like sustainable buildings and low-impact materials; design appropriation by users.
Architecture suggests that a sustainable building should minimally change the environment in which it is inserted. Using the largest possible amount of elements of natural origin and ensuring a rational use of resources to light and ventilate the environments, to reduce waste in these areas. Furthermore, sustainable architecture should concern itself with the use of certified materials and suppliers that may legally established and to make the same beliefs regarding the reduction of environmental impacts and emissions of polluting gases. It is also often considered the use of ecologically sound materials as those from recycled or social projects. After all, there is a detailed study of how to carry the construction and will be treated as the waste generated by it, not to affect (or reduce this effect) the environment that surrounds the property.
Through these services, sustainable architecture seeks to develop buildings that are more energy efficient. It is not uncommon to use of alternative materials and totally different than would be in a building "not sustainable" in the areas of lighting and ventilation of the building. The solar or wind, depending on the locality where the work is often taken as forms of clean and almost zero emission, may take part or all of the responsibility for these items.
Special care is given to the positioning of the house and the provision of windows as the displacement of the sun on the horizon and direction of the wind. The use of double glazing is also an important ally to ensure that the house is well lit throughout the day by the sun without, however, allow the heat up. This procedure is responsible for significant savings of energy that would be spent on lighting and refrigeration in those places.
Another important item for sustainable architecture is the rational use of water in the ventures. Defined as a basic issue is the use of rainwater for watering plants and gardens, wash the outside areas and be used in sanitary discharges. Thus, the economy of water is absurd and can reach up to thirty percent on a building "normal."
The sustainable architecture has deep concern with the correct destination of the waste generated in their work. For this reason, recommends that the rubble from the building can be used as landfill, in the manufacture of bricks and the rest can be recycled in several other ways and applied in many different ways. Reducing costs and the need to dispose of such waste in landfills (or even worse, so wrong and dangerous to the environment).
Following all the parameters to remain within the specifications of sustainable architecture, the buildings are assessed and receive a stamp in accordance with the parameters used in the construction of sustainability. Thus, values, and ensures that the property is a full life and less stressful for a whole community. All this thanks to sustainable architecture.
Really a shame that such good practices are not mandatory in our country.
Published: June 06, 2009

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