Toward green skyscrapers: An ecological perspective on high-rise buildings of the future

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of green skyscrapers and green building assessment systems, and to explore potential technoecology for green building design. Today, many bold decisions are made based on factors affecting energy performance of greenscraper, which have been influenced by regulatory changes, technical development, new materials, innovative designs in architecture and economic drivers. High technology is increasingly relied upon as an ecological solution by architects, planners, developers, and policymakers. High-tech based ecological strategies rely on scientific site study including environmental evaluation, climatic parameters with historical date, lifelong environmental impacts of new construction, and ecological and economic sustainability, etc. To begin to understand how technoecological methods has become a large portion of the design process, this article traces the birth and growth of high-rise buildings driven by changes of ecological solutions, advanced energy saving strategies and technoscience. The paper concludes by categorizing the critical history of tall buildings in energy use into five successive phases based on their energy consumption that outlining the future agenda of ecological technology.