Towards sustainability with user-designer interaction and a comprehensive approach that opens the frontiers between disciplines

To achieve more understanding of the interplay between sustainability and the functional quality of buildings, we should pay more attention to a broad and interdisciplinary approach of building. It means that we must not narrow our vision to the level of the building itself. Instead, we have to go beyond the edges of our discipline and have to change from viewpoint to viewpoint, while we are co-operating in multidisciplinary teams. This could provide a substantial contribution to sustainable development and may solve the complex questions that are posed when developing sustainable building