Engaging Complexity: Social Science Approaches to Green Building Design

摘要

Architectural building design has a long tradition of drawing inspiration from and aspiring to balance environmental, social, and technical aims in its aspirations for the built environment. However, in modern practice with green ambitions, these interests are often skewed toward primarily technical considerations within the building scale. Most buildings are no longer simple vessels, shells formed around use, but machines of enormous complexity, coursed through by numerous systems that control the environment of its interior and connect it to the external world.