The green facades and living walls of vertical greenery systems (VGS) are gaining increasing importance as sustainable building design elements because they can improve the environmental impact a building. field could benefit from comprehensive mapping out VGS types, an improved classification nomenclature system, linking benefits to specific construction type. Therefore, this research reviews existing types links associated them, clearly differentiating empirical descriptive supporting...

Architects, whether they are researchers, practitioners or teachers need better and improved tools to enable them communicate more effectively, change power relationships, co-construct knowledge engage in real life problems. It is this that stimulated us develop our own tool the form of a game contribute debate. Architects should be able use their creative potential design innovative for evaluating architectural design, its sustainable aspects. By using such may also put themselves teaching...

Participatory evaluation of aspiring sustainable schools and their pedagogical potential has recently come into focus. A few authors have made a significant start in examining as both environmentally socially environments, which might simultaneously represent the ‘third teacher’. However, discussion around this idea is new Spain. This paper describes participatory post-occupancy study conducted with teachers pupils Fort Pienc School, Barcelona, Findings reveal school’s spaces fabric,...

At times when Serbia is planning to invest in improving the quality of learning environments up a hundred million Euros through School Modernization Project 2010-2014, describing some trends school buildings design Western countries regarded be crucial. Schools are places where young members our society educated. building can have direct influence on way we assimilate, learn and integrate with other people, also affect we, as society, sustainability into lives. A able teach convey new ways...

Museums dedicated to architecture and the built environment, city local history museums children's are emerging as key sites offering environment education (BEE) for children. While practice of BEE in is very rich, research on this topic difficult discern. The literature discussing settings encompasses a broad range building institution types, without specifically focusing work museums. This exploratory pilot study analyses four case studies contexts children, evaluate successes limitations...

This article deals with the problem of sustainable architecture and planning in Serbia. It starts by describing how environmental, social economic global problems are multilayered, complex interrelated. continues tackling issues development on a local level, highlighting architects? role building more resilient future. proposes set key social, environmental sustainability topics indicators arising from contemporary international research. The research results expected to act as an invitation...

Since 2000, when education reform in Serbia began goals, teachers’ training, curriculum and teaching/learning methods have been modernised improved. However, a closer examination of the schools built from 2000 onwards reveals that architectural design primary rests on standardised school schemes socialist Yugoslavian period, it is not developed synchrony with latest changes. This article presents developments field until today explains their historical precedents. It also reviews...

Built environment education (BEE) uses tangible objects produced by humans, which constitute our built (BE) (i.e.buildings, bridges, monuments) to enrich learning for children.Monuments as facets of material culture can be focal points BEE.Cultural heritage has been used a teaching resource in social studies, cultural geography, (art) history, and sustainable development.Although architects use monuments BEE curricular resource; looking at the existing academic literature topic is difficult...