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On the 20th April in the framework of the next edition of Construmat 2009, the National Association of Sustainable Architecture (ANAS), together with the National Association for Housing of the Future (ANAVIF) and National Business Directory for Architecture Sustainable (DINAS) will present Green Box, a modular sustainable housing-Garden.

The house was designed by architect Luis de Garrido (recently named "Architect of the Year 2008" by the ISBA International Steel Building Association, and the Americam Institute of Architects AIA). "Housing Green Box could be an international benchmark for Sustainable Architecture as it meets at length with all indicators of sustainable architecture that I have established, being also the building that is closest to my conceptual architectural model of artificial nature, Luis de Garrido said.

For further information on the work of the architect, Green Box, will include in its interior "artificial nature VI", a multimedia exhibition of Sustainable Architectural Projects Sustainable Social Housing, Luis de Garrido.

Green-Box, looking for the highest level of sustainability.

According to Luis de Garrido, Green Box meets the 5 basic pillars on which rests the concept of Sustainable Architecture: Optimizing resources and materials, reduced waste and environmental emissions, energy consumption reduction and renewable energy use, improve quality of life and human health and reduce the price of construction and building maintenance.

It is noteworthy that despite their ecological character, housing is economic: construction costs half of a conventional housing (about 550 per m2), so it can become a constructive model for a new social and economic system .

In addition, housing has a zero energy consumption of conventional energy, self-regulating heat due to its bioclimatic design and optimum utilization of geothermal and solar energy. Similarly, the design and construction of housing has been undertaken with the aim of minimizing energy consumption, both in their process of construction, as in the process of dismantling.

All components of housing have been designed in modular form to be assembled dry. Thus, and as it happens in your building, and its removal does not generate any waste, and all parts can be reused again. Based on the foregoing, repairing or replacing each of the pieces, the home features an infinite life cycle. That is, life could be infinite.

The supporting structure of the housing was made based on pre-cast concrete panels, sandwich panels, wood-cement and metal panels. All with the purpose of representing, in the same building, three adequate systems of prefabricated modular construction (metal, wood, concrete).

However, despite all the characteristics described, undoubtedly the single most important element of Green Box is the sloping roof garden and the vertical garden. Both gardens have been based compound plant species indigenous to the Mediterranean, which ensures that only need water (rain only), and its beauty is permanent, maintenance-free.

The garden sloping deck allows housing integrated into the environment as an extension of the surrounding soil. In contrast, the vertical garden stands proudly becoming the standard identifier of the home. The same vertical garden is located in the courtyard of the house. Continue reading ...

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