Sustainable design strategy optimizing green architecture path based on sustainability

Abstract

ABSTRACT The vision is still not clear to the designers to identify the sustainable design strategy parameters. Also, most green building rating systems focus on the environmental aspect without the rest of the sustainability aspects, which reduces the opportunities of their use in the design and assessment process and the construction industry in general. Thus, the research aims to assess, develop, and adjust the path of green architecture rating systems based on a green basis has the sustainable feature to produce, generate, and optimize design concepts and thoughts. Hence, the concept of environment and sustainability are emphasized. The principles on which rating systems were built; were collected and outlined. Then, Green Pyramid Rating System (GPRS) was assessed through an analytical comparison with sustainability to find out the obstacles of GPRS, and GPRS requires more support, treatment, and promotion. Also, a procedural definition of sustainable green design was deduced, which supports activating rating systems by examining the relationship of overlap between green architecture and sustainable design. Finally, a sustainable design strategy was formulated that helps to guide designers toward generating and employing design concepts based on sustainable green thought. This strategy was validated using the Delphi method.