Air Syndrome in Post- Covid- 19 Capacity Buildings
The beginning of what may, in the present context, be described as ‘ unsustainable architecture’ began at the end of 18th century with industrial revolution, as many new technologies and materials came into being. Thereafter the growth rate of urban population has become much faster. The extremely rapid urbanization has resulted in the dramatic increase in the size of urban agglomerations led by environmental, social, political, economic, demographic and cultural problems. “Till we were static we were nearer to nature, as we are moving towards technology our cities are becoming robotic,” said Prof Charanjit Shah, Founding Principal, Creative Group. The consumption of energy particularly, embodied energy consumed in transportation, infrastructure and building industries have led to an increase in carbon monoxide and ultimately the expansion of ozone layer which has caused environmental degradation wherein even the outside quality of air in most of the Indian cities with PM 2.5 and PM10 has gone beyond 400 which is very alarming for the human health as everyone has now become a passive smoker and smokes 40- 50 cigarettes a day. Such consumptions have converted the cities into charcoal cities which we very proudly say as our global transformation.
Now when we talk about capacity buildings, the skyscrapers or large infrastructure campuses where the energy consumption is high in the services, maintenance and usage for creating suitable utilities and management services in the capacity buildings, the recent trends of global empowerment into the built form has practically made it a necessity for all the capacity buildings to be centrally air- conditioned along with various other automation systems controlled by intelligent building management systems.
Covid- 19 is perhaps, the biggest shock to the entire world in terms of human behaviour and the technological bound human settlement which is far away from nature and the natural