Ecosustainable high-rise: the environmentally conscious architecture of skyscraper

The term "green architecture" is related to evolving architecture which is sensitive to the environment
and emerges from the environmental awareness due to the effects of destruction of air, water, energy and earth.
It is characterized by improving energy efficiency, sustainability concept and holistic approach of the entire
building enterprise, where all of the environmental factors are regarded as an objective.
Although there are many of environmentally conscious architectural works today, but most of the building
designers prefer to deal primarily with small-scale buildings (low to medium rise) and often only in greenfield,
rural or suburban sites. All those large scale, high-rise or tall buildings located in dense urban areas are regarded
as avoidable objects that consumes a lot of energy, uses huge amounts of materials, and produces massive
volumes of waste discharge into the environment. These intensive buildings deserve greater attention and should
be designed by greater part of our expertise and effort to ecologically design than the smaller buildings with
fewer problems.
The paper discusses "green" dimensions applied to tall buildings/high-rise buildings with their innovative
approach that leads to ecosustainable tall buildings.

Jimmy Nurdi Kusuma Priatman Unknown Universitas Kristen Petra Indonesian eDIMENSI Journal Unknown Dimensi Teknik Arsitektur Vol. 28, No. 2, Desember 2000: 123-128; Jimmy Priatman (84-023) SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE; ARCHITECTURE-ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS

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