The Emergence Machine

Green Building

abstract · architecture · Level 4 · E10

E10Institutions

Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

A building designed to minimize environmental impact through integrated systems and materials that optimize energy efficiency, water conservation, and indoor air quality, because it emerges from the intersection of form and structure, where organized matter occupies space and interacts with energy, and it also considers the complex network of living and non-living components that interact and influence one another within a specific geographical area.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “green building” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “green building”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
green building
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL4L3L2L1L0Green BuildingBuildingEnvironmentFormStructureMatterEnergyPatternSpaceE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

thisprerequisitesGreen BuildingL4EnvironmentL2BuildingL3E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Environment L2 (requires) environment sense
    A building designed to minimize environmental impact through integrated systems and materials that optimize energy efficiency, water conservation, and indoor air quality.
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    A building designed to minimize environmental impact through integrated systems and materials that optimize energy efficiency, water conservation, and indoor air quality.