Sustainable development issues

Introduction
Since the end of the 20th century, human faces a variety of serious ecological issues
and sustainable development issues and these issues have become a hot topic.
Sustainable development as a new model of development has become a trend of
social development in many countries. This is also a kind of progress of human
social civilization. But people have different opinions regarding the understanding of
sustainable development. This relates to how people grasp and achieve sustainable
development.

2 Analysis
2.1 Issues of environmental damage
Nowadays, people start to pay more attention to the environment; therefore
environmental issues have become a global topic. The change of Earth's
environment is caused by human and our developments. The nature environment has
changed due to overuse of nature resource, therefore the Earth's environment has
been damaged and made natural environment changed since people rely on natural
resources for survival, and we caused many resources to deplete. The most
important issue is global warming. Greenhouse effect increases the temperature of
earth, which leads to global warming.

All these Earth's environmental issues lead to the destruction of the environment.
Firstly, we have to stop destroying the forests, implementing a large-scale
forestation work, promote forest regeneration and design for environment which is
known as sustainable design. The importance of sustainable design is greenness or
environmental protection. Green buildings are a part of global response to increase
awareness of the role of human activity in causing global climate change. (explain
what is green building)

Sustainability is implemented due to the increasing demand for the energy and thus
resulting in air pollution. It is a balance between human and nature. Human and
nature has never harmonious. At first, people don't understand the natural because
they lack of science knowledge. So they cannot prevent natural disasters and
diseases, and also the speed of population growth. Therefore people began to seek
knowledge from nature with the help of science and technology. When production
level increases, the rate of population growth also increases. Human over use
natural resources, environment pollution and damaged the ecological balance of
nature, and also damage human survival on Earth. Now, human faces many issues
regarding environment and its resources. They must reflect on the relationship
between man and nature. People are more aware that they need to establish
harmonious and friendly relations with nature. Sustainable development is the
pursuit of harmony between man and nature as the target for the human social
system in harmony with the Earth's natural systems and harmonious development.

Fundamentally, human health depends on a healthy environment. Present

environmental changes are largely due to the result of human activities. In addition,
the traditional development mode shows many disadvantages and cannot be
sustained. It is also a rethink of industrial development. It shows economic
development. The increase of population is a symbol of economic achievement. This
point of view is to destroy the natural environment by excessive use of energy. In the
context of the serious global issues, also endanger human survival and development
of future generations.

2.1 Definition of the sustainability

Social development is the basis and sustainability is the key. It means to keep in
existence, to be capable of being in continuation with the minimal long-term effect
on the environment.

These are the three components of sustainable development. It includes the

ecological sustainability, sustainable economic and social sustainability. Ecological
sustainability is the foundation; economic sustainability is the condition, social
sustainability is the goal. They are all connected by sustainability.

Characteristics of sustainable development

Sustainable development encourages economic growth to embody the national

power and wealth.

It should be able to protect the nature as it is the basis. Therefore, the development
must be able to protect the environment, which includes controlling of environmental
pollution and improving the environmental quality.

Sustainable development should be able to improve and enhance the quality of life
for the purpose of social progress and adaptation. The meaning of sustainable
development should include improving the quality of human life and improving human
health in order to create a good social and natural environment.

2.2 What is sustainable design for the future?

We do know that we must actively to designing sustainably that is to design within
the limits of natural resources and nature laws. The global issues that we need to
focus on the demands of climate and cultural. Achieving sustainable development
becomes a new development mode in each country.

Sustainable development is to let people understand the relationship between

human and nature. It is used in various fields, especially in design field, such as
green design, ecological design. (too many short sentences, can u link it to 1 or 2?)

Sustainability is to create a new design goal. The design innovation is new model of
sustainable development to explore the human survival and our living environment.
Designing through the sustainable design innovation, it is a new perspective to solve
the problem of human survival and living environment. Sustainable design in three
ways: design concept innovation, design of materials innovation and innovative
design structure.

2.3 Translate concept in to design

The aim of the studio project is to create a "careful thought", "aesthetic sentiment"
and special space for people to enjoy the food of their everyday lives. This designed
restaurant will use different element as a design medium to connect the user with
nature environment. The site I have chosen for my project is at East Coast Park
which provides a nice seascape. There will be higher chances to preserve greenery
in its surrounding area. I want to protect the natural environment as it is based on
the design for the restaurant. I will use all the resources from the site (what
resources?) to design my restaurant because the huge energy comes from nature.
Designs that use the available site energies are approaching sustainability that
designs will be connect everything and is the health ecological model.

My site is an existing building which is an international seafood restaurant & market.

The challenge is to redesign the existing building with a mindset towards
sustainability. For this project I need to redesign the existing building to make
connection with the natural environment for users and introduce day lighting and
natural ventilation.

I will make use of natural elements such as light, water and surrounding environment
to create a sustainable design. Nature lighting is the key element of my design
because I am using the glass wall for the fa�ade to bring the natural light through
the double volume spaces to make it brighter without artificial lighting. I will also
keep the artificial lake (pond or lake?)which is under the existing building. I will use
it as a part of my design and make a link to the surrounding environment. This
approach is consistent with the design philosophy of sustainable development.

The whole idea of my concept for this project is "wave motion" is to create the
movement space while users experience closer to nature. The use of different
elements such as the form of the space, natural elements, material, light and color
to create a heterogeneous environment space connect with surrounding environment
using flexible ways. The basic of wave motion concept is the use of surrounding
environment to influence the indoor space, and think of designing a roof garden,
because nature will inspire design to provide for a sustainable future. The challenge
of this project is to keep the surrounding environment and use the available site
energies to creating a sustainable building.

Sustainable design

-Follow the sun.

-Observe the wind.

-Watch the flow of water.

-Use simple materials.

-Touch the earth lightly.

                        -Glenn Murcutt, Architect.

Sustainable design is a solution which solves the economic, social, and

environmental challenges of the project at the same time, and these solutions are
powered by sustainable energies. It is combined natural and function to the design.

The environmental issues have brought sustainable factors into future design field.
Some of the architects believe "sustainability" is the most important change in the
future.

They have started to focus on designing and constructing buildings in such a way
that protects the surrounding environment. Therefore the conceptual shift is from
balance of human and nature. Green design is the way adapts to the social
development and reflects the strategic thinking for sustainable development and it is
an effective way to achieve sustainable development architecture.

It will be a future design trend. Green design as an element of sustainability is widely

used in construction. Green building integrates the local climate and resources to
create healthy interior space with natural light and use of recycling materials to
development of a sustainable future. Sustainable design is to add value of the
environment.

However, sustainable design is different with green design. Sustainable design

improves the quality of life using of those sustainable elements. The elements of
building are technologies and materials. These elements play an important role on
the sustainability of a design. Sustainable elements should be selected the materials
and technologies that do not require constant servicing. Green buildings should use
durable materials and technologies that can be use for long time without being
depleted and changed. Resource recyclability should be capable of being easily
dismantled, reused, or recycled.

Green building as an artificial environment that embodies sustainability, also meets

the needs of the human material and spiritual life.

The effects of green building are divided to environment effect and effect to the
people. For the environment effect, it is embodied in energy saving.

For the effect to the people is make user to approach the health by fresh air. Another
effect is to mental approach of people. Green building provides a healthy and
comfortable environment for people to stay away from the noisy city, and have
moment of calmness.

Case study
To design for sustainability is a trend. It is also a challenge of architecture in the
twenty-first century.

It is an amazing five-star hotel set within a beautiful water-filled quarry and a best
example of sustainable architecture design in china.

It uses an existing site environment to provide a natural environment for users. It is

built to minimize the impact on the environment when construction begins. The
concept of this hotel is inspired by natural water and landscape features of the
quarry. The hall hotel is covered by green roof, and the building will use site energy
(what energy?) for the electrical supply and heating. The quarry will also protect
resort from the weather and reduce the energy needs of hotel. The positive effect on
the natural resources is to conserve the energy and water, less waste, and a healthy
environment.

Martin Jochman, the chief in design team, says "We drew our inspiration from the
quarry setting itself, adopting the image of a green hill cascading down the natural
rock face as a series of terraced landscaped hanging gardens. In the centre, we
have created a transparent glass 'waterfall' from a central vertical circulation atrium
connecting the quarry base with the ground level. This replicates the natural
waterfalls on the existing quarry face."

The concept aquatic runs through the design both visually and functionally; the
development of concept using garden city philosophy and sustainable design
principle. This hotel is a green building designed for the green generation with many
sustainable features.

Art school in Singapore

It is another example of sustainable design. It is amazing green roof art school in

Singapore. This design provides a new experience to keep the user close the nature.
It has a green roof, water recycling, low-energy and use recycled materials wherever
possible. The designer uses glass wall fa�ade to bring the natural light come
through the space and provide a visual exchange between indoor and outdoor. The
curving green roof create a open space to insulate the building, cool the surrounding
air and harvest rainwater for landscaping irrigation.

Conclusion
In conclusion, sustainable design has been incredibly successful; because the
design of sustainable development of great significance for the return of human
nature. It is a most important change in the future.

According to the design trend, Sustainable design will become new design tools. In
order to transform the world more beautiful, to human health and well-being, in order
to realize the harmonious coexistence of nature and human beings, with the vision of
sustainable development, to design the world, design life, design the future. (It's a
bit hard to understand?)Sustainability is a great idea to heal the world environment.

Sustainable designs have become a key element of design. It use of modern

technology, great efforts to develop green resources, continuous improvement of the
ecological environment, to promote the harmonious development between man and
nature, population, resources and environment all in harmony. By successfully
preserving green, there is the possibility and chances for us to help our own world,
to save the earth from global damage and destruction.