TO HOM EXTENT THE SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS IN GHADAMES OASIS AS AN APPLICATION OF DESERT ARCHITECTURE IN LIBYA

Abstract

The compatibility and sustainability of desert architecture is the natural development for the desert community, they both shape a mechanism in order to seek the ecological balance between the desert community.The desert architecture is the same as old common desert community environments, that we can find that it has grew and developed in slow and steady way on the basis of compatibility and sustainability between man and the environment of desert community, which produced according to that forms of desert urbanism which has a local private imprint that indicates an accurate ecological balance for the desert community. The technological and economical progress by time to extension and linking the sustainable elements of desert architecture together, and this was reflected on the change of the design criteria of the desert architecture. In the context of the desert architecture affected by the modern era variables and that of the desert community’s image, the country aimed through a comprehensive strategic vision to prepare a development plans to achieve compatibility and sustainability of desert architecture, and exploitation of available natural resources in those areas, however, many of these desert communities were built on planning criteria and construction methods that did not apply accurate consideration to the impact of the change of the desert architecture’s design criteria, and the basics and criteria that is compatible to sustainability, also did not maintain of cultural privacy of the traditional desert community. The research study how much the sustainability criteria compatible on Ghadames Oasis as an application for the desert architecture in Libya, and how much we can get the basics and the criteria for the sustainable elements, and that’s through the impact of the change of the desert architecture’s design criteria to cope with the sustainable architecture in Libya, and how much it reacts with the surrounding environment. The research ended by presenting scientific results and recommendations and suggestions for how much the sustainability criteria is compatible with desert architecture and benefiting from the impact of change of the design criteria to keep up with sustainable architecture.