Green Building

Man took birth in the Lap of Nature, which gives lot of colorful and textureful leaves , flowers and different forms and foliages of plants and other elements to create wonderful environment. Nature is the best friend of man which recycles all organic substances and makes a useful end product for him. Today man is cutting his wonderful and useful assets – FORESTS for his living in a haphazard way. Every man can dance in a forest but only few can dance on stage, it shows that man is a part of nature. Due to this man is using the word “Green – Building” which is very common among architects, engineers but leaders make it as a media to escape from their responsibilities for providing neat and clean and healthy environment and comfortable future for our children.

In old days our ancestors were thinkers and use to project their schemes for next 100 to 500 years in future to control the increase of population, waste disposal and treatment and to protect environment from pollution but from last 50 years no body had projected it even for 50 years after considering the various scientific and technologies developments. But here we can take the examples of town like Chandigrah , Jamshadepur etc which will never face such problems even in next 100 years .

New developments in old cities must be on outskirt or near by on a larger area after visualizing the future which will as a satellite town of the old one. Dwarka is a new example of today but its size is small with respect to future developments. Today Delhi has Metro – a new public mode of transportation, which is in use for whole Delhi even for the inner most areas. It must be incorporated during planning only and only for Delhi metro line will develop very fast .

Even the example of towns of Nile Valley civilization there were better disposal and treatment or recycle of waste were better than today modern disposal and treatment systems . They select the core of town in the form of rectangle form for a limited population and all short of basic requirements and waste disposal for treatment to get final end products which are useful for man .  A green building must has sufficient open space or area all round so that a good and healthy landscape or greenery may be provided to develop a comfortable environment . As per local by-law such spaces are must for approval of a house construction . If we plan to plant the tree on west side which will protect the building from direct sun heat and at the same time blow of hot air will covert in to cold air . This green objects will also help to evaporation of water for rains .Today green building is mostly a symbolic representation for urban building because area of town or city is fixed but population is increasing day by day . The increase of population is due to growth in population  or due to migration of people from one place to other place . When there is increase of population in urban areas i.e. increase in population per unit area . This is most effective cause of poor environment around the man .The demand of dwelling can be solved up to some extend by means of vertical growth of town but before this there must be improvements and modifications in existing infrastructures , services and amenities with respect to 100 years in future . One can dream a vertical town over sea as it was thought by Mr.Buck Minister Fullar in 1960 .

Day by day population is increasing and man , due to manufacturing new materials is discharging various complex pollutants in environment ( air ,water, soil etc. ) without treatment  capacity of nature . Over this even Mr . Ebenzer Howards thought and given certain modifications and self sufficient population units are made and these must be develop on external circumference with prime infrastructure of transportation and other services with a large size water lake or lakes to collect rain water for population as similar to Bhopal because purification of water is easier and economical and water casement area depend on rain fall .In my opinion there must be minimum 10 to 15 sq.m. area per head for agriculture growth and this land will be used throughout the year for various crops and manure can be collected from the biodegrading of organic matters .Even the human extricate can be treated in septic tank and its affluent can be passed through  perforated pipes at one meter depth .I did an successful application in one of my problem .

Today plants ,creepers and plant species can be used . For example Tulsi , Pepal  provides oxygen all twenty four hours and this plant can be installed in any pot . One can plan the various plant –species  on the various surfaces of building to make it colour full and echo friendly  .This will provide new thoughts to develop modern building which can be correlated to environmental and all horizontal and vertical surfaces which are responsible to protect inner volume from direct indirect heat can be treated to provide more greenery to help to keep environment cool for human comforts .   This may also give a chance further to  develop new materials and new ways to solve problem for example our Late Prim Minister Lal Bhadur Shastri who had given a call to grow grains on the roof of your house to solve National- Grain problem . It was a Green-Revelation for a cause which is required today to improve environment .