Semi-alive Architecture From Healing to Self-healing in Architecture
الباحث الأول:
Ghassan Ibrahim Kadhom
الباحثين الآخرين:
prof. Ali Mohsen Jaafarand
المجلة:
the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Engineering Techniques (ICSET 2020)
تاريخ النشر:
None
مختصر البحث:
Buildings are exposed to external factors, time factor, and usage during their operational life that their sustainability, and shape get affected negatively. Those factors also reduce the reliability of building since buildings are lifeless being an…
Buildings are exposed to external factors, time factor, and usage during their operational life that their sustainability, and shape get affected negatively. Those factors also reduce the reliability of building since buildings are lifeless being and they don’t possess the properties of living beings. For decades, scientists tried to transform the properties of living beings to various science fields such as computing, architecture, and others. One of the most important properties is the ability of living beings to heal from damage and to resist external factors. The concept of healing in architecture refers to developing maintenance techniques but they remain traditional and not sustainable. Therefore, more attention has been given to making buildings possess self-healing and making them sustainable so that they last for the most possible period while reducing maintenance costs and preserving them. Hence, this study is concerned with the problem of the absence of a complete knowledgeable vision of the self-healing concept in architecture and that of transferring the properties of this concept from living beings to architecture, while the object of the study is to transform buildings from being dead to being semi-alive those can specify and heal damage by themselves, so they can renew themselves or resist external factors. In order to achieve its objective, this study have taken the concept of healing in general and particularity in architecture form various angles, also traditional maintenance and renovation, to achieve healing. Also, the study was concerned with self-healing concept in general and how to achieve it in architecture with the aid of technological advancements via the sensors, developments in building materials, self-assembly, and how it affected the designers’ strategy and philosophy. A comparison was also made between healing and self-healing in order to achieve sustainability in architecture before finishing the study with conclusions
