User:Designtech11/Integrative Architecture

Integrative Architecture is a combination of modern and traditional architectural materials and methods. The collaboration and intent of the various materials and methodologies is to create living environments that consider the health of the inhabitant, the impact the structure has on it's environment and the planetary impact of the structure from cradle to grave, as well as in relation to the bigger picture of buildings in the world.

Optimal living, sustainability, green building, natural building, traditional building, as well as modern building, urban development and modern materials are considered in whole picture thinking.

Integrative Architecture strives to define what optimal architecture is, not simply sustaining life. The combination and collaboration of various fields, from the design/build fields to those of technology and engineering, as well as the health fields and human psychology fields working together to form a collaborative understanding of the human spaces created.

The focus is the combination of all facets from micro to macro.