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Architecture + Design
|June 2017
Sustainability is the ability to exist, sustain and survive without affecting destructive or negative impacts on surroundings.

In an architectural perspective, it evokes an image of a built environment that is friendly and positive.
Every built space and activity has two facets, one internal that affects the user, and second external that impacts its surroundings. Sustainability encompasses both these facets in addition to the resource consumption of said spaces and activities. It has three components:
• Constructing with minimum negative environmental impact
• Creating a built environment that enhances the positive energy of the occupants, thereby providing more comfort, improving productivity and efficiency.
• Using minimum amount of effort and energy to function in the previously mentioned manner
The goals stated above mention intangible metrics like maximum and minimum. These terms are comparative and can be defined in a variety of ways. Minimum can be as low as zero, where that zero could still carry some value. Similarly, negative environmental impacts have also been defined in terms of measurable generated carbon or other particles, where as one cannot exclude the psychological and emotional responses which have remained immeasurable till date.
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