The New Green Regenerative Architecture

Abstract

Since Brundtland Commission, 1987 defined Sustainability - "Utilising resources without compromising future generations", today's generations continue to compromise the future generations by exploiting the resources and fail to address the potential to move the benchmark, wider on the global climatic issues. The emerging field of regenerative design aims at extending the design and development from neutrality paradigm - resource efficiency to net positive approach that can help the community to resolve the ecological and socio - economic crisis. This approach requires an in-depth understanding about the ecosystem principles, see 'place' as a core concept, design and evolve buildings that can regenerate the surrounding ecosystem. Being an emerging concept, the regenerative concept has significant theoretical perspectives with limited case examples. The purpose of the current study is to develop a design framework that bridges the gap between theory and practicality. The current research paper examines the field of regenerative design, its current theory and the works of various ecologists and architects through secondary research. Further, it also explores the limitations and barriers between the theories and practice worldwide. The collected literature was interpreted, evaluated through qualitative methods and concluded with a framework strategy that can be applied in design process as well as in the evaluation of the proposals.