vernacular architecture towards sustainability and humility

Vernacular Architecture towards Sustainability and Humility in the 21 st Century

As mentioned, in the current architecture and design focus is to keep developing new technology and systems to be more sustainable and humble. In reality, there are great precedents from ancient architectures that are fit in those traits as it was developed not following its current fashion and nearly immutable since it serves its purpose to perfection (Rudodsky, 1964). It only built from the social need of a community and altered towards specific climate, geography, political and religious condition as it welcomes natural surroundings and terrain to work within (Achenza, 2016). These are architecture built without architects, built based only on function and needs, the vernacular architecture. Vernacular architecture was produced not by intellectuals and specialist but by the continuing of activities from people that share the common heritage and community experience (Rudodsky, 2013), ‘It is almost a natural product’ where ‘human do not impose, they adjust’ (Senosiain, 2003). This means sharing the same characteristic of what a building can be considered as humble and sustainable. To understand deeper how sustainable and humble vernacular architecture are, a case study will be analysed. We take British vernacular architecture as a case study, where most of them have been listed as one of Britain’s cultural heritage buildings. One of the examples of British vernacular architecture is located in Dean Village, Edinburgh. Implying in figure 10, Dean Village is not only one of Edinburgh’s local cultural heritage (EWH, n.d.) but also one of the most popular tourist destinations.