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The next day April 20 as part of the next edition of Construmat 2009 , the National Association of Sustainable Architecture (ANAS), together with the National Association for the Housing of the Future (ANAVIF) and the 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 example of sustainable architecture, because it meets at length with all indicators of sustainable architecture that I have established, and is 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, includes in its interior "artificial nature VI", a Multimedia Exhibition Projects Sustainable Architecture and Sustainable Social Housing, Luis de Garrido.

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

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

It should be noted that despite their ecological character, housing is very inexpensive: and it costs half of a conventional house (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-heat due to its bioclimatic design and optimum use of solar and geothermal energy. Similarly, the design and construction of housing has been performed for the purpose of minimizing energy consumption, both in their process of construction, and in the process of dismantling.

All housing components are designed in modular form to be assembled dry. In this way, as is the case in its construction, its removal does not generate any waste, and all its parts can be reused again. Based on the foregoing, repairing or replacing each of the pieces, and it has an infinite life cycle. That is, life would be infinite.

The supporting structure of the housing is made out of prefabricated 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 features described, without doubt, the most important and unique Green Box is the roof garden and the garden sloping vertical. Both gardens have been composed on the basis of plant species indigenous to the Mediterranean, which ensures that only need water (shower only) and its beauty is permanent, maintenance-free.

The garden sloping roof 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 in the courtyard of the house. Continue reading ...

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