Architects need new thinking and innovation
Sanjeevi JAYASURIYA
The challenge for today’s architecture in Sri Lanka and the world is
to retain traditional designs and utilize 21st century technology
available, visiting architect Gorden H. Chong said.
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Gorden H. Chong |
Sri Lankan architecture has a strong history of how buildings relate
to the environment and climate. Therefore, many of the buildings have a
sensibility and sympathy for existing buildings in accordance with
nature, Founder of Chong Partners Architecture, Gorden H. Chong told the
Daily News Business.
He was in Sri Lanka as a keynote speaker at the Architect 2010
conference.
Architects should focus on sustainability and re-think to develop the
way it is practiced today and will have to change in future to respond
to the challenges and issues presented by environment.
“The work that architects do will require more research and
collaboration with other professions such as chemists and physicists to
develop new sustainable building materials. It is also necessary to have
collaborations with gardeners and the horticulture field,” he said.
The other major change is that architects will have to collaborate
with psychologists and neurologists to understand the relationship of
human performance and sustainable buildings on issues such as day
lighting, prospective proportion and colour.
“The changes that we must do to address the climate change and
performance of our buildings will require new thinking and innovation,”
he said.
“It is important that we address our goals of reduction in the
consumption of resources and find new sources of renewable energy
through design as buildings today have a significant impact on energy
consumption,” he said. |
