As cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as an important new strategic driver for regeneration and growth. With consistent efforts to integrate technology in all aspects of public life in addition to focusing on a sustainable ecosystem, Smart Cities
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The past year has highlighted the necessity for social and communal interaction. We have, as humans, always been social and inter-dependent by nature. And during the months spent in the confines of our homes, we have realised the importance of basic liberties
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Architects and designers are the agents and leaders of change. The design industry, working with the construction industry, should collaborate more proactively to provide solutions for the environmental crisis, respond effectively to the call for climate action
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The design of environments, especially for learning bestows an extra responsibility on architects to design spaces that encourage exchange of knowledge in varied scales. The sharing of knowledge between various facets of design and construction includes spaces
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With the construction industry being a key contributor of about 36% of the worldwide energy usage and 40% of the carbon dioxide emissions, it is high time we buckle up and embrace the benefits of converting to sustainability. With benefits ranging from environmental
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While the entire world has gotten busy with innovating techniques, materials, elements, in present day India, the idea of a sustainable design appears to be ambiguous. We can find a trend of looking at the West for inspiration catching up with the architects
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In contemporary times, there is an urgent need to broaden our understanding of green or sustainable buildings beyond their traditional mandate of environmental response or energy efficiency to how they interact with their inhabitants. As several studies of biophilia
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The socially responsible designs were always a part of large-scale designs and architecture for town planning and public health etc, and were primarily intended for the larger engagement of the society and the social issues. This trend of taking forward the socially
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Of the hundred upcoming smart cities, many have been completed but most are either in progress or will be starting. Projects that cover the entire city will be more useful for everyone as compared to projects that are being executed under the area-based development (ABD)
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Selection of glass should be done strategically, keeping in mind the directions and the play of sunlight. Double glazed units cut down heat transmittance in the built blocks. Glass can be designed to reduce heat gain and increase light transmittance
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Buildings that can adapt to alternate functions, capacities, and scenarios will gain precedence over merely utilitarian buildings. For instance, hospital designs will have to account for a surge in the number of beds at the time of unprecedented situations
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Even though, formally, we have just started to highlight theme-based gated townships, but if we dig deeper, the concept has always been there. This is because, as humans, we tend to stay closer to like-minded people - who make us widen our horizon and open our vision
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These unprecedented times have allowed us to think outside of the box and creatively look at how we view and utilize the public realm. Therefore, it is time to reconfigure cities into more ecological and equitable spaces and create more recreational
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Some structures are designed to stand out from among the rest, while other designs give users an experience beyond their imagination. Theme-based gated townships built around Mediterranean, Singaporean, or Roman etc designs that replicate the classical architecture
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Architects and Planners envision sustainability taking two very different dimensions, where one direction is technology and software-based pertaining to robotics, machinery and engineering operatives at sites. The other dimension is going back to our roots
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