Image of sustainable places

Abstract

Contemporary moment requires redefinition and attentive attitude towards the phenomenon of place, his image, duration and especially the topic of his sustainability. The fact that all the architectural and urban design practice topical theme of responsibility and sustainability requires that such ideas are put into research focus and questions the concept, design thinking and design, and the planing critically assessed, analyzed and evaluated in the new framework of a paradigm. Images of contemporary place are reflected in images of modern cities, their parts, urban landscapes so they request to review the viability and make her to give new meaning seen in the idea of duration, the identity of place, scale and form.With this work we try to show some of the potential of the concept of sustainability through its basic building elements such as location, nature, time, duration, experience, form, change, and how these elements participate in the context of a new ideology of sustainability. Integrated and sustainable architectural design, which involves the formulation of ideas, concepts, shapes, materials, details and style, consistent with the properties of space on which to build, natural resources, capacities and needs of life processes will reflect, in many ways, to incorporate new process of thinking architecture, places and of its images, as the main impression (duration) of sustainability.