FRONTIERS OF GREEN ARCHITECTURE

Designing in an ecologically responsible manner requires a fundamentally different perspective on our relationships and our position in the natural environment. The awareness of the projects complexity and the intricacy of the current construction systems, in combination with the relationships between spaces and components, dealing with the updating and innovation of techniques, with the needs of comfort, usability and security, is fully expressed through the environmental sustainability issues. Architecture can make this truth obvious and it can allow us to express it at a deeper level [1].
Through the analysis of the architectural elements, construction techniques and landscape integration, while emphasizing the importance of green according to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for Agenda 2030 [2], the paper brings out new perspectives and strategies useful to support new lifestyles that aim at improving the environmental quality and reducing the impact on resource consumption, focusing not only on green intended as vegetation, but also on a more complex connotation of sustainability. It is compulsory to apprehend the relationship between natural and artificial, between people and technologies, in order to evolve and reveal the possibilities that the present world offers. New tools of ecological design need to be defined in order to configure self-adaptive organisms that can be applied at various scales, from the urban one to that of architectural components.