As an example we have housing developments The mountain and building 8. In both cases the spaces are optimized to make intelligent use and recreational spaces that include green areas are created. This not only contributes to urban forests, but also helps community creation within the same properties.
In addition to this, it uses economic materials and chooses areas of the city that would normally house other types of projects to democratize sustainable architecture and offer a better quality of life to users in the area. And this part of social architecture also feeds on inclusiveness. A work should not be alien to its context and private property can be part of the urban route.
Cloud Forest is an artificial structure located in Singapore that replicates climatic conditions of tropical mountains for the study and exhibition of plant species.Poh Wei Chuen / Unspash
Bio-architecture
Now that we understand sustainable architecture as a set of social, economic and environmental well -being, we can remove that concept of architecture that is 100% ecological or natural. This is where the concept of bio-architecture enters, the one that seeks to imitate nature to better integrate it and even have a positive footprint in the ecosystem that receives it.
Through technological advances, they seek Reproduce organic materials and construction techniques that originate in nature. Traditional synthetic materials are abandoned to find those that have a direct relationship with their natural environment.
Neri Oxman
The work of the architect Neri Oxman It is based on bio-architecture. Through your multidisciplinary team studies natural and biological processes to develop construction materials and techniques that imitate nature.
An example of this experimentation is its silk pavilion, where a structure was performed that simulated the cups of silk worms and a similar fiber is wove. From there thousands of worms were released that complemented the structure. To obtain the silk fiber, the cups are put to boil, which ends up killing some of the worms or popcorn.
To avoid this and continue with its philosophy of respect for the planet and its inhabitants, the structure coexisted between the human visitor and the worms. This is another important point of bio-architecture and that the difference from sustainable architecture. Learning to cohabit with other species and that both they and we feel free when traveling through the building; That is, generate nature and not only respect the existing one.