Culturally accepted Green Architecture Toolbox

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Culturally accepted Green Architecture Toolbox
Usama El fiky  Faculty of Architecture, Building
and Planning Eindhoven University of Technology
The Netherlands July 5, 2006 Hezee
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Introduction
Green Toolbox
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The Green Architecture Design Strategies
Toolbox GADS is a pre-design tool. It
contains the green design strategies organized
properly in order to be used by architects and
urban designers as a pre-design tool.
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1. Urban 1.1 Urban fabric 1.2 Land use
1.3 public landscape 1.4 Street design 1.5
Open space design 1.6 Transportation and
accessibility 1.7 Infrastructure
2. Architecture 2.1 Site selection 2.2
Form, zoning and orientation 2.3 Building
envelop 2.4 Construction systems 2.5
Building materials 2.6 Building facilities
and installation 2.7 private landscape
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Rating systems EcoHomes LEED Built Green
Green Toolbox
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World examples Civano Tucsons Solar
Village, Findhorn ECO Village
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Egyptian Examples New Gourna village Green
architecture village Farafra Oasis New Gourna
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Toshka Guidlines and cosederation for green
designing in Toshka
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Building cultural acceptance The
survey was to figure out the influence of
building culture on architecture performance
through out direct questionnaire of
non-profesional people in Egypt.
Green Toolbox
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Questionnaire I Aske questions about
currently used and traditional building practices
in Egypt elaborat the toolbox addition
of traditional and currently used green design
strategies
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Questionnaire II Intruduce the green
design strategies for non-profesional people in
Egypt to see how much they are accepted and why.
Building Cultural indicator
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• Strongly accept
• Accept
• Somewhat accept
• Somewhat unaccepted
• Unaccepted
• Strongly unaccepted

1.1.1 Compactness - 33 Points 1.2.1 Mixed
land use 34 Points 2.1.2 Inward design
74 Points 2.1.1 Underground buildings - 1
Points 2.3.1 Dome for ceiling 24 Points
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Dutch students
Green Toolbox
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Egyptian students
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The refinements
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Green Toolbox
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The refinements Addition of new items
The method of showing the culture
indicator Use the items that constrain
each other Showing the total culture
indicator and green certificate
Different green values (points) have to be given
to each design strategy The software version is
important
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Green Toolbox
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Professional architects Dutch Egyptian
architects utlize the software throghout the
design process in Toshka region
Green Toolbox
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The refinements growth of green points
that are given in a graphic indicator
Showing the percentage of use Create
Graphical navigation system In each level,
show what you have already selected Add
real examples for each green design strategy
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Green Toolbox
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Two kinds of refinements are needed to elaborate
the toolbox. The first is about the toolbox
contents and the second is about the toolbox
techniques. Some of the refinements already are
developed and others are planned to be developed
as future work of the research.
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Run the toolbox software
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• Conclusion
• 1 - With this culturally accepted green toolbox
  GADS, a minimum level of applying green
  architecture principles in Egypt is insured.
  Particularly in Toshka Region south west desert
  of Egypt.
• 2 - Non-professionals have a good resource for
  the knowledge which could be of great help to the
  professional if it is handled properly.
• 3 GADS toolbox could be applied for different
  regions with different cultural background.
• 4 - A big gap between theoretical knowledge and
  application exists in the field of architectural
  education. The Toolbox presents a learning
  leader, to overcome this gap
• 5 - Some of the refinements generated by the
  professional architects have to be analyzed to
  enrich the toolbox design and to be easily used.
  
• 6 - periodically GADS toolbox software needs to
  be updated regarding both the building cultural
  indicator and possible new green design
  strategies.

Green Toolbox
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