Architectural
e-portfolio
by Tay Ee Hang
Assignment 2: Exploring local architecture or built environment (BE) responses to specific SDG goals and targets
In this project, students are to explore how architecture can provide the basis towards meeting several Sustainable Design Goals. The 17 SDG goals define the challenges that need to be addressed to achieve a better and more sustainable future. Leaving no one behind, the world must move towards achieve these goals by 2030. To evident this statement tangibly and to demonstrate how built environment/architectural responses to these goals, students are required to document realized cases of architecture, planning, and structures with the aim of understanding the Goals as they relate to architecture/built environment.
REFLECTION
Through this project, I understand the 17SDG goals and specifically the goals that are associated with Built Environment/Architecture (BE/Arch). I explore and understand how the BE/Arch and selected building, Sunway Geo Avenue is responding to particular Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by researching on the methods applied to achieve sustainability in building design.