People-friendliness

Project philosophy argues the case for basic physical and mental human needs being allowed to play as important a part in the design of the new IBN-DLO building as the functional and spatial requirements. Western man spends about ninety percent of his life in an interior space. The artificial interior conditions of these spaces determines the quality of our living environment to an important extent. The multi-functionality and flexibility and flexibility of buildings has become a goal in its own right, one which ignores our real needs.

Environment-friendliness

The project philosophy considers three phases in the life-cycle of a building: the building phase, the use phase and demolition or reutilization phase.

Building Phase: Environment-friendliness in the building phase implies aiming for the closed-cycle use of raw materials. In other words, building materials must renewable (eg. wood) or recycled instead of being the usual finite, non-renewable materials. The selection of building materials must take account of the amount of energy consumed in the production, transportation and processing of the material, the amount of waste material produced in its processing and the possible release of environmentally harmful substances. when the generation of off cuts and other waste is unavoidable, the aim must be to recycle the raw materials concerned.

Use Phase: environment-friendliness furring the use phase for a building depends mainly on the amount of energy and water consumed.

Demolition phase: In the third and final phase of a building's life cycle, that of demolition/reutilization, make it very important for consideration to be given during design and construction to the possibility of either the future reuse of the building as a whole, or the future recycling of structural components and building materials.