unTAG’s take on Sustainability

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Through our experimental practice at unTAG, we try to advocate economic and ecological sustainability, not just as built manifestations but as a way of life. By practising sustainability, we reap the benefits of environs without harming it to make human life more comfortable.

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Sustainability is not merely mathematics which has fixed ways of practicing it, rather an implementation of learnings that has evolved from day to day improvisations. We try to grasp from the minimal impact self-sustainable lifestyle of our ancestors whose needs were basic, when resources were respected, where zero-waste cyclic processes were an integral part of their living, and importantly nature was respected the way it should be.

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Effective sustainable architecture assures cost efficiency, lower operating costs, reduced dependency on artificial energy, comfortable & healthy indoor environment and importantly endorses co-existence with nature.

In the current situation, world’s energy consumption, is heavily dependent on non-renewable resources, and is increasing by more than 2% per annum. It is predicted that we will be exhausting these resources within next 50 to 80 years. Also, most of our current energy usage causes serious environmental problems, like the Greenhouse effect causing global warming. Global energy consumed for constructing and operating buildings is almost 40-50%. Similarly construction industry accounts to huge consumption of water, high levels of CO2 emission and creation of non-industrial waste.

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We can mitigate this crisis through a resilient, climate responsive, sensitive architectural design approach to the construction industry. Constructing buildings and neighbourhoods that consume less is the only way forward. We need to set our own design parameters for a NEW NORMAL, which affirms co-existence with our surrounding environ, striding slowly, sensibly and sustainably.