Towards a Sustainable Life Based on Harmony between Humans and Animals for Achieving an Ecological Balance to Develop Eco-Cities

Mohamed, Shimaa Abdelsalam; Shiba, Mohamed Salah Eldin; Abdel Salam, Rasha Mazen; Shiba, Ahmed Salah Eldin

doi:10.21608/auber.2025.392102.1101

Towards a Sustainable Life Based on Harmony between Humans and Animals for Achieving an Ecological Balance to Develop Eco-Cities

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Department of Architecture, Higher Technological Institute, 6th of October City, P.O. Box 4, Giza, Egypt

² Department of Mechatronics Engineering, October University for Modern Sciences and Arts, 6th October City, Giza, Egypt

³ Department of Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Assiut University, Assiut

⁴ Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt.

10.21608/auber.2025.392102.1101

Abstract

Within the framework of the Ministry of Environment’s contribution to developing projects that serve the village community, one of these projects is to build pilot-plant units to generate biogas from animal manure as a renewable fuel instead of fossil resources that pollute the environment. This achieves sustainable development for future cities, highlighting the local community's role in rationalizing new energy and contributing to its manufacture through advanced thinking, which creates new job opportunities serving community development. A new architectural initiative is aimed at proposing a sustainable environmental vision through an ecological balance resulting from harmony between humans and animals toward biogas generation from animal manure in villages of developing countries. This reflects itself in an application contributing to the development of architecture that provides mankind with a better life. To build a modern home with self-sufficiency in energy demand, animal manure, being a natural resource, is to be transformed into biogas as a thermal energy source used in several home applications. This energy could be converted into electrical energy used in other architectural applications, such as home appliances and lighting. The present paper is aimed at setting up a model for a modern home, whose electric demand is satisfied using the biogas generated from animal manure.

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