Ecobuilding: towards an appropriate architectonic expression

Abstract

Environmental planners design and oversee the construction of the infrastructure that substantially supports the built environment. Infrastructure is being described as the basic physical assets of a country, community or organization, and the built environment as comprising urban design, land use and the transportation systems, and the patterns of human activity within this physical environment. Sustainable infrastructure development requires architecture to find an appropriate architectural expression that addresses the key concepts as contained in the World Commission on Environment and Development Report, "Our Common Future", namely: an architecture that is restorative and transformative, and whose execution is a process of change in which the exploitation of resources, the direction, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations