The investigation of the impacts of walls and green facades on the optimization of energy consumption in buildings and its role in a sustainable development

Keywords:

sustainable development, sustainable architecture,energy consumption, green walls, passive and activesystems

Abstract

In recent decades,artificial environments, compared to the natural spaces in urban areas, areexpanding day by day. Following the same trend in Iran, apartment living framewithout any natural space has changed. And it is while the need to nature isstill alive in human beings. Moreover, all over the world due to major problemssuch as global warming, air and water pollution, excessive energy consumptionand its high economic costs, utilizing technologies of sustainable architectureand specially creating green buildings has got great importance. In thisregard, the use of green areas can be used as appropriate strategy in order tosolve existing problems and creating sustainable architecture. In this paperwith research method based on library studies and descriptive analyticapproach, green walls, to improve the energy consumption efficiency inbuildings, have been investigated. And also the role of these systems in visualaesthetics of urban area in line with the objectives of sustainable developmentis examined. It seems that using green walls as a way to reduce the energyconsumption in buildings can be an effective option to advance the goals ofsustainablearchitecture.

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2014-07-25

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The investigation of the impacts of walls and green facades on the optimization of energy consumption in buildings and its role in a sustainable development. (2014). Scientific Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences, 3(7), 516-528. Retrieved from http://www.sjournals.com/index.php/sjpas/article/view/624

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