All architecture is exposed to nature and its elements .How it reacts to them determines how effective and efficient it is in its environment. With the rising cost of energy, there is move to investigate new systems that utilize the inexpensive, easily tapped, renewable resources that nature provides.
Building on a sloping site offers many advantages. These advantages include opportunities for views and the capture of prevailing breezes. However building on a sloping site may require more site planning and design consideration to minimize the environmental, visual and amenity impact on neighboring properties and surrounding landscape.
The key is to minimizing construction costs on a sloping site is to reduce the amount of earthworks required to level the site through cut and fill and to minimize the number of engineered retaining walls. This can be achieved by adopting a sustainable solution that suits the sloping site.
