A cleanly designed building is sustainable.

Sustainability has an enormous number of facets that require building professionals to take a holistic view.

This includes not only the technical, the building physics issues or those of the right choice of materials, but also the design itself. With questions like: What is the real space requirement? Could the space requirement be reduced without deteriorating the use? It's about the built-up area, but also about the shape of a building itself, the orientation of the various rooms, the window formats and sizes, and the usability of a structure. Buildings can be designed to be structurally flexible to accommodate future uses that are still unknown during construction.

In addition, a building that does not have to be demolished to make way for a new use is sustainable and allows for further use of the gray energy. Architects determine the shape and form of a building through their design work. Beauty and timelessness also make a building sustainable. Beautiful buildings are rarely demolished. They are gladly put to further use and - if necessary - carefully converted.

Well-designed buildings have an active influence on their surroundings, they enrich the urban space.

All this, the design of the mere form and shape of a building, is the primary task of architects. More than that, it is the great responsibility that architects have towards the present and the future.

Because their work will last for generations.