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This manuscript addresses the imperative for sustainable building practices, particularly focusing on office buildings, which exhibit high energy consumption rates. Conventional building methods contribute significantly to environmental degradation through energy, water, and raw material usage, alongside waste generation and pollution. In contrast, green buildings offer a paradigm shift towards healthier, resource-efficient models, promoting sustainability and environmental stewardship. Green architecture, a global trend, emphasizes harmonizing building-environment interactions. Architects play a pivotal role in implementing advanced strategies to reduce energy consumption in office buildings, including the integration of renewable energy sources like solar and wind power. This paper highlights sustainable indicators and principles crucial for transforming office buildings into green structures. It underscores the urgency for architects to prioritize energy reduction through renewable sources and electric energy rationalization. Ultimately, the research contributes to advancing the discourse on green building practices, offering practical guidance for architects, policymakers, and stakeholders invested in fostering sustainable development within the built environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The vision behind biomimicry has always been the pursuit of solving the difficult problems that confront us in life in general, and architecture in particular. The coronavirus is without a doubt the most serious problem and the most dangerous threat since 2019 till now. And architecture has a human dimension that is interested in the prevention of infection and disease and keep human health. This necessitates architects and researchers to attempt to gain access to approaches that make human life less dangerous and threatening, as well as design that is safer and has fewer infection causes. The purpose of this paper is to create indicators that aid in the reduction of coronavirus infection by using nature and its characteristics as a model, which will serve as a starting point for the pandemic architecture of the coronavirus era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]