REINVENTING TRADITIONAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY: Contemporary Earth Architecture of Sri Lanka

作     者：Ranjith Dayaratne 

作者机构：University of BahrainBahrain 

出 版 物：《Journal of Green Building》 (绿色建筑学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2010年第5卷第4期

页      面：23-33页

核心收录：

学科分类：0601[历史学-考古学] 06[历史学] 07[理学] 0712[理学-科学技术史(分学科，可授理学、工学、农学、医学学位)] 

主　　题：sustainability earth buildings reinventions 

摘      要：In the search for sustainability,Sri Lanka like most countries has been looking at modern and new materials and technologies as much as at the indigenous *** having possessed a resourceful repository of traditional technologies and practices,their reinventions,however,have remained somewhat *** stems partly from the absence of focused research as well as sponsored or recognized programs to promote and experiment with the new possibilities of their applications in modern *** Lanka’s traditional architecture has been extensively studied,and there exists much literature on the art and construction of the ***,a greater focus has been on recording the variety of their spatial patterns together with the architectural compositions and appearances of buildings and their architectural details(De Vos 1988;De Silva 1990;Lewcock et al.2002).While De Vos and De Silva have constructed a set of patterns of tra­ditional Sri Lankan houses in settlements,Lewcock et *** traversed the entire range of traditional settlements and buildings and particularly their architectural *** has often highlighted the marvel of timber architecture(1984),while many archeologists have discussed the structures and constructions of buildings in the con­text of the history and archeology of Sri Lanka’s ancient *** contrast,Dayaratne(1999,2000,2003,2007)shows how its indigenous architecture has been inherently sustainable and how some of the modern architects have employed their principles in creating architecture that is appropriate to culture and kinder to the *** paper provides a general introduction to the traditional materials of Sri Lanka and examines in detail how earth architecture has been revitalized as a sustainable approach to building.