Environmental Performance Assessment of Tall Building “Architectural Features”

Amer, Nadia Abd El Aziz; Abd Elsalam, Nesreen Fathy; Ibrahim, Ebtehal Galal Eldeen

doi:10.21608/ijaeur.2024.218334.1042

Environmental Performance Assessment of Tall Building “Architectural Features”

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ the higher institute of engineering in shorouk city

² Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering in Mataria, Helwan University

³ Architecture department, Faculty of Engineering, Matrya branch, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt

10.21608/ijaeur.2024.218334.1042

Abstract

The first goal of building tall buildings is to create cities with a high population density without draining the land, which leads to reducing the negative impact of buildings on the environment. Since its inception, the main reason for its establishment was related to the idea of preserving the environment and protecting lands from urban sprawl to meet human needs. However, this perception was not correct to a large extent, as these buildings became more draining of energy and resources, but in fact became one of the most harmful types of buildings to the environment, which makes them stand as an obstacle in preserving the environment and achieving the concept of sustainable development, which has become the first and most important issue for the world and for many architectural trends in particular. Although the evaluation systems and tools at the international level, a large number of them underwent a long history of development and the emergence of internal classifications for each of them with the aim of including and knowing all types of projects new, old, replacement, renewal, and various functions, they neglected their heights that lead to fundamental differences in dealing. With the project from the initial studies until the stage of demolition and recycling. High buildings are characterized by distinctive technical and architectural features compared to other types of buildings. The buildings are low and medium height- regardless of their function - they all have similar procedures in construction, operation and demolition. On the other hand, tall buildings differ completely in the same aforementioned procedures. Therefore, this paper will address the elements of environmental assessment of the most important architectural features of tall buildings

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