doi: 10.7763/IJET.2017.V9.1000
A Design of Sustainable System towards Green Architecture
Xu Tan
1
,
Songwen Tan
2
- 1 the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, NSW 2007 Australia
- 2 the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
Abstract
Regarding the world-wide environmental issues, the modern architecture has entered a place of technology forming a sustainable architecture. Sustainable systems designed for the buildings have been largely carried out to reduce waste emissions. As most effort is spent on utilizing the natural resources, the resources from building itself have been neglected. In this work, we present a design of sustainable system focusing on the resources from building itself. Spatial arrangement as a key design factor for sustainable buildings is considered in the building design. Using the knowledge of civil and environmental engineering, kitchen waste is mixed with toilet sewage in a special sewerage system connected with a wastewater treatment system. The biogas produced by the wastewater treatment system is designed to be collected and used for power generation. This work may suggest an idea to reduce waste emissions and energy consumption for sustainable buildings towards an advanced green architecture.
Keywords
- Design
- spatial arrangement
- sustainable architecture
- wastewater treatment
How to Cite
Xu Tan and Songwen Tan, "A Design of Sustainable System towards Green Architecture," International Journal of Engineering and Technology, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 370-373, 2017. https://doi.org/ 10.7763/IJET.2017.V9.1000
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Copyright © 2017 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).