What is a spatial form?
Spatial form is both the physical and material solid-stuff of the built environment and its void-space. It is meant to capture the relationship between solid form and void-form as well as considering space as continuous and therefore linked to the broader context surrounding your project’s site.
What is meant by sustainable built environment?
A sustainable built environment is circular, designed for longevity, flexibility, adaptability, assembly, disassembly, reuse and recoverability, and considers future climate risks. It uses low-carbon, low-impact, non-toxic materials and it recovers used resources (materials and products on-site or from other sites).
How do you describe the form of a building?
Form refers to the shape or configuration of a building. Form and its opposite, space, constitute primary elements of architecture. The reciprocal relationship is essential, given the intention of architecture to provide internal sheltered space for human occupation.
What are the steps in organizing form and space?
4 Steps to Organizing Any Space
- Clear it Out. The first thing you need to do is clear the space.
- Clean it Up. Now that everything is cleared out, it’s time to clean that space.
- Sort Your Stuff. Before you start putting anything back, make 4 piles of all your things: Keep, Put Away, Donate & Trash.
- Style Your Space.
How can we improve our built environment?
Address housing structure – Improve heating quality and ventilation systems, renovate poor-quality structures, add insulation, and repair other construction aspects that impact health conditions.
What is built form?
Built form refers to the function, shape and configuration of buildings as well as their relationship to streets and open spaces.
How does green building help the environment?
Green buildings and communities reduce landfill waste, enable alternative transportation use and encourage retention and creation of vegetated land areas and roofs. High-performing green buildings, particularly LEED-certified buildings, provide the means to reduce the climate impacts of buildings and their inhabitants.