The General Attitude of Aesthetics in Sustainable Architecture and its Impact on the Environment (Case Study: Sustainable Building Qualities)

The concept of sustainable development has been formally introduced into the public literature by the Brantland Commission in ۱۹۸۷. Based on this concept, sustainable development has three economic, social and environmental branches. One of the most important goals of sustainable development is to preserve nature and improve its outlook, and the manifestation of sustainable development in the field of the built environment is called sustainable architecture. It has also been for the environment and the activities related to construction consume forty percent of the society's energy resources and contribute to environmental pollution in the same proportion. this study attempts to illustrate how the architectural expression of certified sustainable buildings in the Baltic Sea region reflects the trends of sustainability within an ethical paradigm. The research question of this study is as follows: what are the prevailing aesthetic trends and are environmental ethical values expressed in the sustainable architecture of the Baltic Sea re- gion? The study of examples of sustainable architecture was carried out by analyzing the three main databases of certified sustainable buildings—Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen (DGNB), Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) and Building Research Estab-lishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM). The study found eight predominant groups of aesthetic expressions of sustainable buildings and the absence of a distinctive architec- tural expression that could be considered as sustainability aesthetics. It can be hypothesized that the lack of aesthetic distinctiveness of certified sustainable buildings could be related to the absence of cultural, aesthetically oriented criteria in building sustainability rating systems.

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Architecture ، sustainable ، environmental ، aesthetics ، sustainable buildings.