Humans have, without a doubt, harmed the environment by taking benefit of the resources. Collectively, we then talk about sustainability and meeting the needs of the present without compromising the…
Over the past few decades, climate change has become a global issue. According to leaders of the world, the biggest challenge is pursuing countries to cut down on greenhouse gas…
GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) is a certification for assessing the green buildings in India. Along with a sustainable environment, it also renders healthy quality of life, both…
Buildings are responsible organisms. A building has several systems that may not serve healthy relations to the environment, they are mass bodies of consumption, water, and energy. In production of…
BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) is a well-known system of evaluation, Rating, and Certifying to know a building’s environmental performance. BREEAM authentication is proof of the sustainable approach…
About LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a third-party green building certification program used worldwide, developed by the non-profit U.S. Green Building Council(USGBC); it provides a rating…
What is GRIHA? GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) is a system for evaluating green buildings. It facilitates the assessment of a building’s performance based on nationally accepted standards…
What is the future? Any period that comes present is the future. It is the next day or even after 50 years. Architecture has always paved its way to alter…
As a popular belief in the architectural community, an Architect is a jack of all trades. But what comes after graduation for an architecture student? One can either jump into…
Frank Lloyd Wright was a passionate lover of Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints and subsequently traded them. In many ways, their aesthetics guided some of his principles as a practicing architect.…
As society turns its attention toward our evolving climate crises and its effects on a global scale, architects and construction managers have evolved their practices with it. To reduce waste…
Time and again few people have taken untaken paths for conserving nature and sustainability towards practices. The following are 10 examples of people’s approaches in upcycling materials and their outcomes…