Study On The Design Methodology Of Ecological Architecture

In the recent years, the confliction between human activities and the natural environment has causing continuous deterioration on the environment of both the human and nature. So it forces man to look back on the relations between them. With the concept of sustainable development introduced, architects set out to inquire how to solve the influence of architecture on environment and energy.The design basis and methods are discussed in the areas such as the use of energy, the conservancy and seal of heat, natural ventilation, the use of mid-water, the afforestation, and the materials of ecological architecture. All these are considered on the basis of the elemental relation between architecture and natural environment in order to make people have a deeper understanding and grasping of such a design. Modern ecological architecture has been existed for nearly half a century in Europe, while it was just introduced in the recent ten years or more in China. The rapid development of Chinese economy has put the national ecological environment into a fragile state because of the ignorance of the environmental problem which has caused serious pollution and destruction of nature. Such a degradation of ecological environment continues, and this has demanded the department of architects of a important responsibility.Standing on the beginning of the new 21st, we have to abolish the traditional producing method with the great consumption of energy and serious pollution as its character, and aim at the ecological architecture which can conserve sources, lessen the exhaustion of energy, minimize the pollution and increase the quality of in-door environment.The Chinese department of architecture is now enduring a critical change from a type of quantity to quality. The building of ecological architecture is an important sign of the improvement of the quality of the architecture. It means that a deeply reform to protect the environment and save the resources to achieve the equilibrium of ecology will occur in the areas from the production of architectural materials, the plan, design and constructing of such a architecture to every unit of the chain of the manage when it was finished. To some extent, such a reform will advance together with the development of ecological architecture.The Chinese architecture can't go in the way of the old mode any longer for it has exhausted too much energy and caused so many pollutions. The construction of ecological architecture is the only way we can choose in the new century.