Green and Sustainable Buildings

This is especially true today as society faces challenges of global warming, peak oil, and water scarcity. So " green " and "sustainable" are become the key words for modern architectures. How energy a building will save, how much less pollution it will produce,what sort of materials were chosen, and what affect on the health and comfort of the occupants is expected seems to be main questions that people care about. As following project, i mainly focus on green and sustainable house, which can achieve long-term use and save energy and realise environmentally friendly.

There are two ways can achieve what i mentioned above. Generally, there are two ways could utilise solar energy in construction: one is passive solar, the other one is active solar energy. The so-called passive solar buildings are refer to the use of solar energy to provide indoor heating without other mechanical device to provide energy. The passive solar system is a process of transform nature source, which relys on conduction, convection and radiation heat to implement the collection, storage, distribution, and control of solar energy. On the contrary,the active solar buildings usually use of machinery to collection, storage, distribution to control solar heat.It needs two elements for passive solar system: one is to use the direction of transparent material (glass or plastic, etc.) or the dark materials to collect solar energy, the second is collection, storage and distribution of solar energy heat to receive maximal solar energy.