Plant role in contemporary architecture to increase shading & as alternative energy


Abstract in English

plants plays an important function in alive environment and generally in architecture, and it has an important function in the formation of constructional spaces that the constructional masses appears in their real scales and it is interrelated with natural elements that addresses the sharp architectural lines and the harsh texture. Plants and trees have important functions in all social economic environmental aspects, in addition to their great function in controlling sunshine and changing many hard climatic conditions, and they have a great function in dilution the global warming which has become a global phenomenon that the whole world is seeking to solve.

References used

Adams,Robert;Adams, Marina; Willens, Alan; and Willens, Ann,1979- Dry land, Man and Plants., St. Martin’s Press, Inc., New York
Carpenter, Philip; Walker, Theodore; and Lanphear, Frederick,1975- Plants in the Landscape. W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco
Clark, Kenneth and Paylore, Patricia,1980 Desert Housing, The University of Arizona, Office of Arid Lands Studies, Tucson, Arizona

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