Definitions, meanings and overview of Green Architeture: A Concept of Susstainability

In recent years, sustainability concept has become the common interest of numerous disciplines. The reason for this popularity is to perform the sustainable development. The Concept of Green Architecture, also known as sustainable architecture or green building, is the theory, science and style of buildings designed and constructed in accordance with environmentally friendly principles. Green architecture strives to minimize the number of resources consumed in the building s construction, use and operation, as well as curtailing the harm done to the environment through the emission, pollution and waste of its components.To design, construct, operate and maintain buildings energy, water and new materials are utilized as well as amounts of waste causing negative effects to health and environment is generated. In order to limit these effects and design environmentally sound and resource efficient buildings; green building systems must be introduced, clarified, understood and practiced.This paper aims at highlighting these difficult and complex issues of sustainability which encompass the scope of almost every aspect of human life.© 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).Peer-review under responsibility of IEREK, International experts for Research Enrichment and Knowledge Exchange.Peer- review under responsibility of IEREK, International experts for Research Enrichment and Knowledge Exchange

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Green-building systems ، sustainable buildings ، natural buildings ، living architecture ، renewable resources ، eco-design ، eco-friendly architecture ، earthfriendly architecture ، environmental architecture ، natural architecture