RICO ECO-HOUSE

RICO ECO-HOUSE

Luis De Garrido Architects as Architects

This is a house located in rural and in a hostile climate. There is hardly any rainfall and temperatures can reach 45 º. So you've decided to build a house buried that, therefore, remain cool and stable temperature. At the same time, we wish that the house warm in winter by itself, without any heating.


It has therefore been integrated housing located on a slope of the ground, so that only have a semicircular facade (integrating three greenhouses double skin of glass) facing south, providing natural light throughout, despite be buried.


The house has a semicircular shape to join the site chosen, and have a perfect bioclimatic performance. In this sense, the roof garden of the house is integrated and is an extension of the surrounding terrain.


The formal structure of the house represents and reflects the cult surrenders to the use of load-bearing wall in the composition of buildings with high bioclimatic. Wall burden greatly increases the thermal inertia of the building, and is able to store heat or cool, and maintain stable temperature inside the building.

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