DESIGNING WITH NATURE

“Nature and natural processes are the guiding principles or the main metaphors of the
design approach. “
– Frank Lloyd Wright

Principles of order and unity in nature: reducing the buildings’ impact on human
• Unity of site health and the environment
• Structure OBJECTIVES
• Unity of form and function - Improve efficiency of building
• Natural materials performance through set of
• Colors standards
- Counter harmful gases
METAPHOR responsible for effects of
- direct comparison between two climate change
or more seemingly unrelated - Efficient use of resources, site,
subjects design, construction,
- transformation process from maintenance
abstracts into material or visual
image PERFORMANCE STANDARD
- “imaginative rationality”
TYPES - ENERGY EFFICIENCY
- Direct - WATER EFFICIENCY
- Indirect - MATERIAL SUSTAINABILITY
SOURCES - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
- Literature - SITE SUSTAINABILITY
- Religious - INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
- Environment
- Art
- Manmade GANGAWAN, LEO O.
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE INTEGRATED VARANAL, JHOEMEL S.
WITH NATURE BSA 4B – ARDES 07
- ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE
- BIOMORPHIC ARCHITECTURE
- BIOMIMETIC ARCHITECTURE

GREEN BUILDING
practice of increasing efficiency
with which buildings use resources such as
energy, water and materials while also