Tizouiar Ouahiba ,

These references can draw a background of which you should start from. Here you go.

- https://www.di.net/articles/intelligent-building-design/

- Ritchie, Adam, and Randall Thomas, eds. Sustainable urban design: an environmental approach. Taylor & Francis, 2013.

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Dear Tizouiar,

Green Building Rating Systems are one place to start. But I believe these need modification - especially when applied to architectural projects in developing countries. They do not assess the social, economic and environmental impacts upon existing communities (see Soebarto and Ness, 2010, 'Rethinking the adoption of green building rating systems in developing countries').

In such contexts, I suggest being 'green' is not enough, and environmental considerations should be integrated with socio-economic and cultural ones. For example, can a 'net plus-energy building' serve as a mini power plant , so it may share energy with adjoining communities? Can the design use local materials and involve local community in its design, construction and ongoing management, so that more jobs are created? Can passive means of heating and cooling be employed, without the need for expensive HVAC equipment and the problem of its maintenance and replacement?

Hope you find these suggestions helpful.

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I would rather approach it holistically. The domains of sustainability are important in any environmental approach to architecture. The importance perhaps depends on how we view and theorize the built environment. The researcher’s viewpoint plays a significant role here.

I would point to Sitte’s (1965) rhetoric ‘Should one be satisfied then, to place this mechanically produced project, conceived to fit any situation, into the middle of an empty place without organic relation to its surroundings or to the dimensions of any particular building.’

Dear Mr David Ness and Mr Mamun Rashid,

Thanks for your replys, your suggestions are very helpful. Truly, being "green" is not enough and environmental considerations should be integrated with socio-economic and cultural considerations. such as sharing energy, using local materials and involving the local community ...). also, it’s important to produced project and conceived it with organic relation to its surroundings

However, the problem that I ask is that through the environmental approach wich must take into account all these considerations. How can the project be efficient and what are the priority performances to ensure, this during building design, construction practices and as well as operation and maintenance of the development and buildings, for indoor or outdoor spaces?

Best regards

Other than the established 'scientific' approaches like 'Green Building Methods', 'LEED' etc., I would like to support the common-sensical, grounded and traditional practices of design, which are time-tested. One of the critiques of Modernism as 'the modern way of designing' has been its disassociation and non-alignment with the nature and overriding its principles and components. Humans have considered most of the natural resources as infinite and ever-available. The sense of 'exhaustion' of resources reintroduces the retrospection of our ancient and common-sensical practices.

So, agreeing with David and Mamun, one can start looking into holistic aspects of sustainability in the environment like history, culture, human, ecology and economy. I am attaching two papers on one such person, Laurie Baker from India, who 'common-sensically' realised environment in Architectural projects.

Laurie Baker: A model for Sustainable Architectural Design

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317036910_Laurie_Baker_A_model_for_Sustainable_Architectural_Design

We also find Baker's idea to be Gandhian along with the contemporary practice of Hunnarshala in Bhuj, India. You can read more at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313586507_A_Gandhian_Framework_for_Social_Design_The_Work_of_Laurie_Baker_and_Hunnarshala

You may like to read,

Holistic Socio-environmental Design: Practices Through Making, Craft, and Historicity https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313587189_Holistic_Socio-environmental_Design_Practices_Through_Making_Craft_and_Historicity

Thanks Mr Saurabh Tewari for your comment and papers, they are complementary to the above.

so, how do you think that these considerations and these holistic aspects are taken in the case of sustainable, efficient and environmental quality buildings on a virgin site, isolated, without any existing urban spaces or history apart its landscape, I mean a new city that wants to be smart and sustainable ??

Tizouiar Ouahiba ,

These references can draw a background of which you should start from. Here you go.

- https://www.di.net/articles/intelligent-building-design/

- Ritchie, Adam, and Randall Thomas, eds. Sustainable urban design: an environmental approach. Taylor & Francis, 2013.

Article Algorithmic Verification of Procedural Programs in the Prese...

Thanks Mr Dhirgham Alobaydi for your answer and your references.

I could take a look on the first one. but the second is a book that is not available in our library. for the third one I sent a request for author.

what Iam looking for is about Sustainable building design: an environmental approach not urban design. thanks for any other helping

best regards

Tizouiar