Nanotechnology driven sustainability design in contemporary architecture

The current era is witnessing advanced and amazing technological leaps, as a modern advanced technology called nanotechnology appears, which is one of the most important technological achievements that affected all areas of life, especially architecture, which directed the research to its goal of putting forward a special theoretical framework for nanotechnology indicators that support the achievement of sustainability and which directed the vision of The research is to make nanomaterials take a leading position to achieve aspects of sustainability, and the most important interest is to employ these achievements to achieve sustainability indicators in architecture, despite the fact that traditional materials, since ancient times, have proven their sustainability efficiency as a natural resource, but with the developments of the times and environmental and climatic changes, among others, they have confirmed their limitations in achieving contemporary sustainability. This is what specialists in the field of advanced technology, including our current research, are directed to shed light on. Accordingly, the problem was determined by "the lack of clarity on the role of nanomaterials in the sustainability of contemporary architecture." In order to achieve the research goal, the research adopted a methodology represented by the following steps: first clarifying the concepts of nanotechnology and sustainability, Second, by analyzing each of the properties of sustainable nanomaterials, third: a review of some previous studies that dealt with how to achieve sustainability in contemporary architecture in light of nanotechnology, specifically nanomaterials and techniques for working with them; fourth: building the theoretical framework for research, which includes vocabulary on how to achieve architectural indicators; Contemporary sustainable development in light of the capabilities of advanced nanomaterials leads to the last step in the methodology represented by applying the theoretical framework for research on four projects, two of which are recipients of the Gold Award for Sustainability. In the light of the application, the research clarified its results and conclusions, which were represented by the fact that nanomaterials in architecture provided solutions to some of the problems that architecture suffers from and which stand as an obstacle to actually achieving sustainability, such as reducing pollution and emission of gases or reducing heat gain, which contributes to rationalizing energy consumption and reducing costs, among others, thanks to techniques integrating them with The traditional materials represented by coating roofs with nanomaterials, coatings, sensors, and nanorobots, which have proven to increase the performance efficiency of contemporary buildings, have been awarded the LEED Sustainability awards.