ADAPTIVE REUSE OF MONUMENTAL BUILDINGS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

The concept of "sustainability" was developed in recent years in order to make decisions under the consideration of environment. Additionally, "environmental sustainability" means the ensuring of the continuity of the natural resources most of which faced with exhaustion with the increasing population and developing technology on the world. Increasing both adaptive reuse applications and the use of alternating materials will support the protection of natural resources and provide efficiency in terms of energy and natural resources. The sustainability in architecture is the belief of; Economic use of resources (reduction, reuse and recycle), Life cycle (the ability of analysis of the sustainability period and its effects on the environment) and A human-integrated design (covers the strategies questioning the relations between humans and natural environment).