Green architecture is a sustainable method of green building design. It involves making a new building, or adapting an existing building in an environmentally friendly manner in terms of materials used, space occupied and energy efficiency.
Green architects usually have standard qualifications in architectural design and practise, and may have taken additional qualifications to demonstrate their green or environmental knowledge. However, the most important sign of an architects competence in green matters, is their skill and experience.
Eco-architecture brings architecture and nature together, providing low-energy sustainable solutions.
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life? - Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader's Digest, November 1939
Sustainable, ecological designs, planning consultancy. Planning appeals, enforcements, Urbanised societies world-wide are rearing children who have too little contact with the inherent beauties of Nature, the essential food of the human soul. Thus deprived, they reach for drugs, drinks and consumerism as poor substitutes. Eco Architecture Planning & Permaculture Design Consultants aim to design garden-centred environments for food, beauty and soul satisfaction as contexts for their eco-architecture.
They are Feng Shui consultants and specialise in the design of ecologically sustaining architecture and planning. In other words, the holistic design of buildings and their surroundings spaces or gardens that maintain the balance in terms of food, energies, materials and humans needs: aesthetic, physical, social, spiritual and emotional. With an increasing concern at how human beings are destroying the planet, they see an eco-lifestyle as a means of healing the Earth. Eco Architecture Planning & Permaculture Design Consultants shall investigate, establish, teach and offer examples of ways of living co-operatively, harmoniously, sustainably and self sufficiently with each other and the environment for the benefit of the local and wider ecological communities. www.eco-architectureandplanning.com/home.html
Dil Green Architect has over ten years experience working with green-minded clients, with a holistic approach to making buildings which are sustainable, life-enhancing and above all, deeply beautiful. Deep beauty is only present when the design has connected with the place, with the real needs of the people who will live or work there, and with the wider environment. Visit www.dilgreenarchitect.co.uk to see their work, and to find out more about them.
Quattro is known for its innovative approach through close collaboration with users and clients, on housing, health and education projects. Their mission is to design and deliver projects through a collaborative and responsible working culture that encourages staff, clients and end-users alike to create solutions towards more positive and sustainable ways of life. Quattro firmly believe in sustainable design not as an optional extra but as fundamental to the way they think; it is an integral part of the design process and puts enormous emphasis on getting the basics right. www.quattrodesign.co.uk
J3*Building Futures is a sustainable development, environmental design, green construction and ecological living consultancy, concerned with developing the built environment in a socially and environmentally sustainable manner, helping buildings to become as energy efficient and healthy as they are cost effective. www.j3buildingfutures.co.uk/
Jerry Tate Architects is committed to developing sustainable, low energy architectural solutions achieved by embracing cutting edge developments in construction and computer technologies. www.jerrytatearchitects.com/
