Structure and Material Usages Concerning Sustainability in Architectural Design Studio

Yasar University, Üniversite Street No:37-39 Aǧaçlıyol Bornova, İzmir, Turkey

Abstract

Sustainability is a term that there is no exact definition that is accepted for everyone. But the main acceptance is that goods and services that use resources that can be replaced. As it is clear that climate change is one of the big problems of the world nowadays, sustainability becomes an important subject of the world. Day by day people become more conscious about sustainability and try to live environmentally friendly. In such a condition sustainability in architectural design becomes more important. In this paper applying sustainability concepts on architectural design is discussed. In the third year architectural design studio students are supposed to design a sustainable project that is respectable to the environment and also using renewable energy sources. The aim of this paper is to put forward integration of sustainability with respect to material usage in architectural design. The projects of third year studio students are taken as a case study and integration of sustainable structures and materials to architectural design is discussed.