ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Purpose: The growing imperative of the climate transition has increased the use of capital markets to create sustainable finance. Green bonds and green sukuk have become important tools for financing environmentally oriented projects in conventional and Islamic financial markets. However, there is a lack of comparative synthesis between them in terms of financial, environmental, and governance aspects. The purpose o…

Reference · Wikidata

architecture that seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings by efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, and development space and the ecosystem at large

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Sustainable architecture is a branch of architecture that focuses on the design and construction of buildings according to environmental sustainability criteria, with the aim of minimizing their negative environmental impact by enhancing efficiency, reducing material and energy consumption, and minimizing the disturbance to the surrounding ecosystem. Sometimes, sustainable architecture may also focus on the social a…

Image · Europeana

Book · DOAB

The loss of urban biodiversity pushes us to rethink architecture. Drawing on ecomfenimist theories, "Better Together" challenges established practices of progress and permanence, offering new ways and tools to accommodate and promote coexistence for more than just the human species.With a series of contemporary projects, the design of future ecosystems becomes imaginable.

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

The two most significant differentiators amongst contemporary Cloud Computing service providers have increased green energy use and datacenter resource utilization. This work addresses these two issues from a system's architectural optimization viewpoint. The proposed approach herein, allows multiple cloud providers to utilize their individual computing resources in three ways by: (1) cutting the number of datacente…