Sustainable+Design.

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= Sustainability has now become a cliché in society, a fashion, so to speak, the only difference with the fashion shows is that architecture does not use the runway, we have quantities of sustainability models So many that we reach a point where it is difficult to know what is sustainable and what is not. We use it as a slogan saying I am (we are) green, green, just because we put some trees in a building or build a garden on the rooftop, as if we were to change the world with such actions. =

Although criteria has been developed that experts define as an ideal line, if you turn you get a stamp of certification, an award that says the sustainability of the project to categorize it as bronze, silver, gold, platinum and diamonds, depending on the level of sustainability that the experts believe it requires. However, the sustainability of an architectural project, city or engineering (not to ignore a sector that, as far as possible make its best efforts to also become sustainable) may be evident if we understand the meaning behind a word we use as a crutch in all human languages: sustainability.

So what is sustainability? Or what does it mean to be sustainable? It definitely is a concern, a concern of the main points of the UN conference organized in 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden, and this was just the first stone that was placed to begin an era of energy and social environmental responsibility. This caused a boom that has somehow affected the positive and negative perceptions of landscape, environment, science and art. The statement, "development that meets present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs "(UN, 1972, Stockholm, Sweden), is so easy to say and so difficult to do that we have reached the point of distorting messages while interpreting particular benefits and forgetting that goal of sustainability posed by the UN is was based on involving communities, towns, cities, countries, continents, etc.. The funny thing is that we live in a time where awareness is a mere theory: the care of the environment, carbon dioxide emissions generated by man-made machines, global warming, the extinction of some animal species, humans continue to build cars with fuel-based motors such as gasoline and gas oil, which causes the destruction of nature by building more highways.