"Low carbon" is a word in season one. "Today you 'low carbon' it?" Is the most popular fashion greeting. Two days before such a report, entitled "fashion novices in the low-carbon wedding." Their low-carbon wedding "menu" as: line, no wedding car, relatives and friends took the bus to dinner; trouble, the discharge of firecrackers and smoke-free electronic waste; dinner, gallery 12 dishes are all vegetarian; ceremony, each presented a health care discs. In sensitive people, the "low carbon" has become a fashion, this is a low cost can be achieved with healthy return on our high fashion, we may take a step to the chase.
"Low carbon" has been extended to the content at all levels: low carbon society, low-carbon economy, carbon production, carbon consumption, and low-carbon life, low-carbon city, low-carbon communities, low-carbon home, low carbon travel, carbon culture, philosophy carbon, low carbon art, music low carbon, low carbon life, low-carbon living doctrine, low-carbon way of life … …
So the design community the responsibility and blowing the "low-carbon style." "Low carbon" design is actually to design as a starting point, designed to promote low-carbon design principles, concepts, methods and means. In manufacturing, storage and transportation, distribution, consumption and even to do all aspects of recycling energy consumption, low pollution and low emissions. The end of 2008 Guangzhou International Design Week to set off people's energy and environmental concerns for sustainable development boom. Held "low-carbon design" series of activities undertaken by the Central Academy of Fine Arts Festival are all zero-carbon home low-carbon, carbon reduction as its theme, the concept of the carbon into the design, affecting people's lives, making it a part of people's lives .
Be "low carbon" is actually very simple. Architect Mies van der Rohe that "less is more (Less is more)" The design is also in line with the current quote of "low carbon" design philosophy, "less is low carbon."
We can also "low carbon" narrowly understood to spend the least money to get as much done.
Less technology, commonly used materials found impressive beauty. Not necessarily rely on low-carbon life to support high-tech products, the use of energy efficient products sometimes just in the form of carbon. Around the most common material used to discover the features that it has developed, or to develop its undeveloped properties.
Less gimmicks, more pragmatic. Now some of the many designs often rely on gimmicks, relying on some of the concepts, by some form of the above changes to build someone else's design. "Low carbon" emergence of the concept, but also for green design put forward new ideas, need to consider how to make green technology in the design shown, as much as possible to maintain the original ecosystem, but also the designer of an expression of artistic expression .
Less copy, more classic. Rational use of natural resources. Such as the Shanghai World Expo will be zero carbon Museum, designers want to design a house, the house can absorb natural resources, able to absorb natural light into the building interior power, and even construction of air conditioning, ventilation buildings, into the various kinds of water and material resources available, to the system with a new perspective to solve problems, reflecting a new possibility. The building from the consumption of resources into the production mechanism and the collection of resources, mechanisms. Having said that, I think some of our traditional architecture style of the advantages of the classic features: solid wood up to shock level, the brick walls of the insulation means can take the firewall, in addition, raise the foundation, the top layer of ethereal, all the minimum carbon build the most environmentally friendly mode of living.
Face of a devastated Earth, "low carbon" design reflects the designer is the most important social responsibility. "Low carbon" in the design industry is the need for sustainable development. I hope the "low carbon" design to firmly go, do not look back, not as a burst of wind blowing fashion and over!
