A resource-based study that contributes to the use of smart materials to achieve sustainability within the context of contemporary architecture.

Abstract

Due to the lack of knowledge and experiences in the criteria for the rethinking of Smart Materials within the architecture professional practice in Egypt and down to the environmental problems in the contemporary architecture, especially in the housing projects that can't fulfill the requirements of the user and the needs of the new life (comfort, economic housing, eco-housing .etc.), and due to the climate change (the increase of temperature for many causes in Egypt), all these prompt the important calls to focus on the design solutions and experiences aiming and responding to the natural climate control, and passive measures in architectural design derived from the Compatible Technology