Environment and 701 Architecture

"Environmental design is where the earth and its processes join with human culture and behavior to create form. At its best, environmental design is where people and nature meet, where art and science join. Shaping form to guide flow, this principle could also be stated flow follows form follows flow… By shaping the environment, we guide the flow."
– Lyle, John Tillman, Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development

If the most sustainable building approach is to not build at all, the second option is to provide an adaptive system that does not imitate nature but works with nature. One can no longer legitimately consider a future form of architecture without providing a sustainable framework. A system that provides support and channels, redirects and redefines not only the exterior environment but also our interior surroundings. A building that co-exists rather than dominates its natural environment, and of an architecture that restores rather than destroys its surroundings. From its inception a new system must include an environmental analysis, which generates and orients the form of development to accommodate the forces and flows of nature. Localized climate data can orient and optimize the form by utilizing the patterns and flows of the sun and the wind to orientate the buildings composition.