The Value of Technique and Technology in Sustainable Architecture
Abstract
Starting from the premise that "The architect is the key actor, who applied techniques: it encourages, creates or disseminates technologies for construction and architecture" that makes possible the innovation and development of the architecture within an elaborate sustainable plan, covering current environmental requirements, obtaining an aggregate value of its product by making relevant decisions for the method and technique, selecting appropriate technologies for use in construction and architecture. Today we must leave the poetic romance of seeing architecture as a design leads to the highest artistic expressions of art; this topic is dominated more than a century. The architectural work is being globalized, enters the game in the marketing and sold as a staple. The current strategy if it wants to be responsible is to innovate in the use of sustainable technology development scheme, without losing the tenacity to integrate design and architectural composition showing total creativity. The glimpse of the creativity of the architect must be fed by the imagination, freedom of thought over all the baggage of experience and knowledge acquired by and for architectural practice. I argue that the present duty of the architect is the search for techniques that will facilitate hard work in the area of sustainable architecture, considering alternative technologies, efficient, that are of value added to the product architecture to social, economic and environmentally . It is sometimes very difficult to think and plan architectural products of value with all the current global needs. The work of the architect and his team is excessive, the architect is stressed to think how to solve the functionality, order, form, esthetics, geotechnics, foundations, structures, installations, hydraulic, sanitary, electrical, manufacturing and assembly , 2d and 3d presentation of the project, civil works, interior, landscape, construction management, impact studies, permits, etc. etc. to also remember that the variable should be present to care for the environment, balanced in harmony with the environment and context. The hermeneúsis ideas can be realize with electronic devices that replace the drawing pencil, applied to software design (skeltch, CAD etc.) other programs that are required to provide estimates of costs like opus. And the widespread concern about the ecological aspect has created new support tools for building thermal evaluation, assessment and quantification of the resource path solar, wind, simulation of energy expenditure, all to strengthen the bond between humans and their environment to make the architecture more than a surface volume, established as a blot on the landscape. To conceive a holistic project, you select passive design strategies, bioclimatic, using organic or recycled materials and safe for the environment, materials of higher thermal inertia, promotes the use of self-powered systems to reduce environmental costs because, in the end that is paying the bills is the user. In the investigation by the originality of sustainable architectural design methodology, seeks to fuse the natural elements are printing a valuable difference to the openings, openings, natural ventilation, orientation, using