Case Studies of Sustainable Housing for Sustainable Living in Malaysia for Better Future Siti Hajar binti Mohd Shahrain, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
What is needed is architecture of change – an architecture that moves the field beyond the design of buildings and toward the design of new processes of engagement with communities. Bryan Bell, 2008
This study is carried out to identify the potential of sustainable housing implementation in Malaysia, as a respond to the environmental problem we faced today. This paper will focus on eleven case studies of sustainable housing in promoting sustainable communities as well as sustainable development over the world. This study will also prove how sustainable housing works successfully as an alternative and tools for better future in promoting sustainable communities and overcome the environmental issues globally. Keywords: Sustainable; Housing; Living; Environmental 1.
In order to respond to future
INTRODUCTION As the world evolves, our natural
resources are depleting at a worrisome rate, while our needs for fossil fuels and generated energy only keep on to increase. Our current way of living will require a drastic revamp in the next ten to twenty
insufficiencies,
we
must
rethink
of
architectural responses as a whole from at a very early stage. As a result of awareness on the
importance
of
conservation
and
preservation of environmental resources, the concept of sustainable housing emerges.
years and as designers of spaces and places, we are the key to the evolution of how society and nature need to join along to overhaul the environment.
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SUSTAINABLE HOUSING AS A
METHODOLOGY FUTURE
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