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The article explores possibility of providing a high quality architectural space and profitability of investment in the context of increasing requirements for energy efficiency of buildings. For this purpose legal requirements relating energy efficiency of buildings are analyzed (EU directives, the local law, ecological certification LEED, BREEAM) and their influence on architecture through evaluation of existing energy-efficient facilities built on a different scale. Continuously increasing requirements concernin...

From the 1990s we have been dealing with a shift of paradigms in architecture. This occurs in a number of directions - but their common denominator is the abandonment of the classical Vitruvius triad – moving form stability to temporariness, from statics to variability, from function objects to scenarios played in time. One of the results of these changes became strengthening of a new species of architecture - architecture of low costs - so called low-tech. It was created as a result of the growing need for fina...