Laboratory of sustainability – model university building in Vancouver

Anna Bać

doi:10.5277/arc130206

Abstract

The idea of development that balances the social, economic and environmental factors has significant influence on contemporary architecture and issues of architectural design. In many countries, especially the highly developed ones, sustainability becomes a fashionable approach. Societies manifest high awarness of human impact on the environment, causing a need to search for solutions in design and architecture, which have the least negative impact on our habitat. This paper presents an overview of a sustainable building, raised within the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, on the west coast of Canada. The building is intended to serve as a teaching, research and demonstration facility. Solutions adopted within it, concerning energy and water management, building materials and greenery design, are an example of architecture, which has a positive impact on the environment and is an interesting architectural idea at the same time.

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