Abstract—"The sustainable design will reach its full potential by studying structure at a deeper level.” Although structure is essential for realizing any architectural design; however, it is not highlighted as an important principle in the six fundamental principles of sustainability. Most of the design researchers are looking for designs and materials that are less harmful to the environment. This paper surveys design for sustainability and eco-design strategies and, the use of codes that affected the design process in architecture by focusing on the structure system as the main issue, analyzing the adaptation of three parametric structures to accommodate climate condition, by studying structure control framework from the sustainability point of view. The structures control sun rays, wind power, material and rainwater. So finally, structures achieved the meaning of the environmental control that supports sustainability through a suggested framework will guide architects and designers to get a new way of understanding the structure system and its importance for sustainable design.
Index Terms—Structure sustainability, eco-design, green building, parametric design, algorithmic design, generative design.
Marwa Abdelkader El Gendy is with Department of Architecture, Effat University, Jeddah, KSA (e-mail: marwaabdalkader@yahoo.com, melgendy@effatuniversity.edu.sa).
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Cite: Marwa Abdelkader El Gendy, "Structure as a Support for Sustainability," International Journal of Engineering and Technology vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 7-11, 2021.
