DEMATERIALIZATION IN ARCHITECTURE AS AN IMPERATIVE OF SUSTAINABLE BUILDING

Global consumers material culture dominates our ordinary behaviors with enormous materiality level increase kind of physical objects spam. Nations or societies can be characterized by different models of materialization and various scales of its environmental impact in long time perspective. Architecture and building sector as influential player on global materials flows market should take responsibility to create a truly sustainable development, reducing embodied overloaded components, material hegemony and wasteful energy consumption. Architecture and building process should be dematerialized as much as possible to be an imperative of real sustainable building. Various dematerialization models such as: re-materialization, re-location, de-carbonization determinates eco - efficiency of buildings and quality of life for future generations. Architects should recognize dimensions of dematerialization, its consequences and opportunities of relative and apparent dematerialization to know, how to enrich shaping spaces with soul and psyche, immaterial pieces of our habitats.