The complexity of green and sustainable transformation processes in the urban and architectural reality of Jordanian cities is increased by the effects of inappropriate building material use and inadequate design processes. This paper focuses on the difficulty of introducing sensible building proposals in underdeveloped contexts, caused by the inadequate definition of technical requirements for building performance. The aim of this paper is to provide innovative means to modify the parameters and practices of related projects, highlighting the concept of affordability as crucial in sustainable design processes and related technical choices in underdeveloped environments. The methodology adopted in this paper is based on theories that promote innovative visions, approaches, and concepts regarding the availability of building materials and energy resources. This paper introduces dynamism into sustainable architectural and urban regeneration, firstly make them more integrated to minimize waste, and through design processes that reduce environmental impact during renovating of existing buildings introducing recycling plans. Other outcomes of this paper include the use of affordable green and sustainable architectural parameters and the introduction of active proposals to simplify the complexity of the unbalanced relationship between affordability and sustainability in building design.

The most influential element in green architecture is the facade since it represents the major expression of architecture and separates the internal micro-climate and external environment. This paper focuses on the design of new types of interactive facades, developing new typologies, such as an interactive facade that aims to reduce air pollution among a system of facades that allows micro, non-irrigated vertical vegetation development, absorption, and fixing of micro particles through inspiration process. The interactive green facade uses special bricks designed to permit an inspiration and aspiration process caused by different temperature and humidity levels, which, in turn, promotes the growth of micro-vegetations. Both elements help to reduce air pollution and could be used separately or together. The facade obtained with this method introduces an innovative concept of green facades and helps to reduce carbon and other oxides that cause global warming. The scope of this research is to produce high performance facades that are conceptually based on simplified and advanced technologies.

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In the past, Jordanian cities were just small centers, with no planning systems. Today, many of these cities have expanded in response to emergency urbanization and ongoing political crises. The resulting development has irreversibly modified the urban landscape. Studies of urban conditions in Jordanian cities, particularly, Irbid, are key to understanding how rapid growth has altered its architectural and urban landscape. This paper focuses on the problem of urban regeneration and requalification to identify the variables driving informal development in Irbid. Understanding the real factors, as illegal and abusive land use, at play versus unnatural development where classical approaches are not suitable for understanding the problem. Highlighting policies, strategies, and tools needed to identify transformation trends of cities like Irbid, to produce hypothesis of sustainable and suitable development. Results show that to propose innovative hypothesis we must first research evolution mechanisms and their transformation effects. Using tools that define conditions of under developing that govern transformations in our case study. A spatial modelling would be an interpretation model that combines effects and causes, of the cited under developing situation in future projection of sustainable development. The proposed spatial modelling, "Integral Planning Model" (IPM), throw investigations and interviews and simulations try to build a parametric matrix processing able to help the planners and policy makers to put up suitable strategies.

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