The built environment should be growing and merging more symbiotically with its natural surroundings. Both should be constantly changing and evolving, one to satisfy our curiosity for new things and the other to balance various ecosystem changes. Nature can provide further inspiration to encourage the sustainable design of new developments, through biomimicry and systemic thinking, and suggest improvements for existing buildings and practices that seem to be set in concrete.
Built form, colour choices, material selections and services design can impact on how effectively man-made structures harmonise with the environment around them. Contemporary processes emphasize the need for collaboration and knowledge sharing, such as consideration of embodied resources, supply chain management integrated design, and ecological footprinting. Collectively we are beginning to realise the impacts we make, and have made in the past, but we still have a long way to go before we can say we live in a truly balanced and picturesque world.
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