Self-sufficiency and its role in the sustainability of exhibition buildings

Abstract

The exhibition buildings are characterized by a great functional importance due to the profitable results they obtain through marketing, cultural exchanges, and other activities. Throught out the increase in competition, which accompanied by promotional and innovative methods to achieve greater revenue, it was found that the exhibition design began to be affected architecturally. Many attempts was made to reduce the consumption and operational cost of the exhibition, and environmental impacts to create an interactive environment through advanced technologies as an advanced method of presentation. As a result of sustainable exhibitions, the previous knowledge touched on the dimensions of sustainability and how to achieve them for the self-sufficiency of the exhibition buildings, nonetheless, the insufficiency of comprehensive knowledge emerged about the relationship of the concept of self-sufficiency with the sustainability of the exhibition buildings, so the research problem focused on " the need to clarify the role of self-sufficiency in achieving sustainability within the exhibition buildings", and focuses on the goal of searching to clarify that relationship, which requires a three-stage approach. The first is to build a theoretical framework on the concept of self-sufficiency and its indicators within the exhibition buildings and explore the dimensions and concepts of sustainability associated with self-sufficiency, including (off-grid building, pre-manufacturing, interactive technologies and virtual reality, etc...) and the second examines the vocabulary extracted within selected samples of sustainable exhibitions, to be a third discussion the findings and conclusions that enhance the theoretical framework for the concept of self-sufficiency.