Sustainable development as a trigger for new architectural and spatial solutions

Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy), 107031 Rozhdestvenka st. 11/4, building 1. p. 4, Moscow, Russia

^* Corresponding author: e.belash@markhi.ru

Abstract

Architecture acquires its relevance at the moment when the architect shifts his attention from specific architectural issues about space, composition, functional program, etc. to something that goes beyond professional issues. He begins to think about architecture from the perspective of other disciplines, for example, from the perspective of sustainable development and ecology. These changes give rise to new spatial solutions that could not have arisen if the architect had not changed his way of thinking. Ecology is already used by some architects not only as a way to make the building more efficient, but it allows to find a new basis of thinking about architecture, where the shape and space of the building are subject to energy efficiency, environmental friendliness and adaptability. The goal of the article is to identify the methods of generating new architectural and spatial structures in the buildings of modern architectural firms that arose because of changing in the terminological apparatus of thinking about architecture based on an ecological approach. Several illustrative projects are considered in the work and two types of spatial construction, conditionally called natural and artificial, are revealed on their example. These two methods of shaping stem from the ecological approach and enter into an interesting dialogue, which is expressed in new non-standard solutions for shape of a building.