GLOBAL WARMING IN ARCHITECTURE

If we think about the causes of Global Warming, firstly we think about CO gas release to the air that resulted from burning process of motor vehicle, and others. But the fact is architecture itself also supports in increasing CO2 and the other gas and consume nonrenewable energy, the architects are seemed not concern with the impact resulted by the construction process of their design to the environment. The architects seem to compete in producing architecture creation and local cultural and also too rely on non renewable energy consumption in large amount, either in the construction period of the operational period. It refers to designing building planning by putting first the visual pleasure and complex building form without looking of the dwelling environment.

For example, in tropical area such as Indonesia, in the operational period to get building visual and thermal pleasure by using AC(Air Conditionning) and high consuming lamps as the solution of the design, where as to get those thermal and usual comfort can be gained by using energy from nature like gaining temperature humidity and optimal illumination level.
In the construction period, material usage which are using lot of kerosene as fuel on the material production process and gasoline for transportation process because the distance between material production location and the building were far away.

When an Architect designs a building and chooses material usage, it means that the architect is responsible for energy which is consummated by the building. Then using many kinds of technology which are consuming lot of nonrenewable energy, it would be wiser if we design by using energy which is available on the nature, minimizing waste product in the construction process and minimizing materials that use burning process. In the other words, start to design building that can adapt with nature.

Need you to know:
Energy cannot be created and also cannot be demolished. So form transition of energy from one form into the other does not change the quantity volume globally.

The first law of Thermodynamics: Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but instead is transformed into different forms. What it means, the amount of energy that existed had to equal to the amount of energy that transformed.

The second law Thermodynamics: determined to the quality of energy (also known as energy) in a system. What it means, the quality of energy that transformed had to be higher that the quality of energy that available, for example.

The fourth Law of Thermodynamics; organized to keep in the system for as long as possible. What it means, do not produce the waste resources, therefore used ‘waste’ as ‘food’ for manufacturing resources is the most effective way to fully utilize energy quality.

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