Guest editorial: Learned lessons and design implementations towards sustainable architecture

[...]the sustainability lessons could be regarded as valuable insights or knowledge resources to develop more resilient alternatives of sustainable architecture, whereby traditional passive approaches can be reinforced with contemporary active technologies (Yeang, 2008; Mileto et al., 2015; Sayigh, 2019). By collecting years of weather data and conducting test cells to determine the potential of green roofs on temperature development, this study suggests some benefits of using green roofs for indoor temperature reduction and subsequent energy use reduction. [...]they also used a simulation model of the thermal performance of the test cells to investigate appropriate variables for temperature reduction and to explore design options for temperature reduction. [...]the authors summarize design guidelines for the cities to what optimum values of each strategy are readily applicable to any residential design in both cities, during the daytime and nighttime.