Green Building and Architecture

11 apr/10 5

To live in tree houses: arboreal choice

Le case sugli alberi del villaggio

A small community of people has managed to realize a dream that kept many from 'childhood to live in trees!

Located amid the woods of Mt Peeled, in Piedmont, we can define the first village "arboreal" of Italy, inhabited by 12 adults and a 1 year old girl, who had the fortune to be born and grow in this wonderful forest.

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10 mar/10 1

The eco-house self made with recycled bottles

La casa di bottiglie di Tito Ingenieri

It is certainly a monument to recycling the self-built home by Titus Engineers with about 6 million bottles and rubbish.
This Argentinean artist of Italian origin, who calls himself a self-taught sculptor, has made his immense house over 19 years in a town south of Buenos Aires, called Quilmes.
The glass bottles used for the construction, were recovered by Tito cleaning up the streets of towns in the area abandoned by gaps, and by recycling the same worn by him and those who gave him some neighboring businesses.

16 mag/09 0

Seawater to cool and irrigate the farm vertical

Seewater vertical farm di Studiomobile, Dubai, Emirati Arabi Behind the futuristic design of this project is an operating principle that allows genius to use seawater to cool and irrigate crops inside greenhouses placed on the supporting tower.

The "vertical farm seewater", the work of Italian architects Studiomobile (Cristiana Favretto and Antonio Girardi), was designed to be built in Dubai, UAE.

Tags: water , architecture , climate , cultivation , farm , irrigation , orchard , greenhouse Read

1 feb/09 14

Build a house of straw

Casa di paglia DIY straw house is a safer and more convenient than it may seem.

In addition to the considerable advantage that they could build themselves in a short time with a bit of technical support, the benefits are many: the straw bales are a very cheap material, highly insulating and noise (soundproofing) both cold and hot ( thermal insulation), resistant to seismic vibrations, environmentally friendly, sustainable and "breathable". macchina imballatrice, al suo interno l'ossigeno presente è pochissimo, questo unito alla finitura superficiale garantisce una elevata resistenza al fuoco che non riesce a bruciare in assenza di ossigeno. As the bale of straw made from ears of corn from the culm of wheat plants combine compressed and packed by packing machine, inside the oxygen is very short, this combined with the surface finish ensures a high resistance to fire can not burn in the absence of oxygen.