Greenbuilding
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about greenbuilding
Project • By OOIIO Architecture • Private Houses
Tornado House
Tornado House is located in a quiet residential area of Madrid capital. It is a domestic project tailor designed to a family with two children.
Javier de Paz
Javier de Paz
Everything is though for them, every space and detail. During the home design and construction process all decisions always started from listening to the needs of those who would be the inhabitants of the house, in order to be able to give the closest possible response to their tastes, budget, way of life, aspirations...
That is why Tornado is actually like a suit, a true "taylor-made house".
Javier de Paz
Javier de Paz
Its architecture is simple and emphatic, as well as purely functional and practical. Its carefully composed prismatic volumes stand... More
Project • By Chiara Armando Design • Private Houses
IL Cielo In Ogni Stanza – The Sky In Every Room
Special mention for this project received in January 2017, at the side of the great names of Italian Architecture, such as Michele De Lucchi (AMDL), Alfonso Femia (5 + 1), Mario Cucinella and Matteo Thun, for the competition “Architettura in Legno ” organized by Lingus, the Italian National Association of Prefabricated Wooden Houses and IN / ARCH - National Institute of Architecture, to reward the best wooden architecture produced in Italy in the last 10 years.
Respect for the context, environmental sustainability, structural lightness, “zero bills” management were the objectives.
A new volume in green building in class A +, compact outside, fragmented in... More
Project • By Mitsubishi Electric Trane HVAC US • Housing
Lively Passive House
“A code-built home is the worst home you’re allowed to build by law.” Overheard at a recent conference they attended, this is the kind of thinking that motivates Fagin Partners, a Dallas-based, father and son building team. The company was formed in 2016 after Connor Fagin graduated from Baylor University with a pre-law degree focused on efficiency and environmental law.
“My father, Kyle Fagin, was already building energy-efficient homes when I came to work with him,” noted Connor. “We’re talking fully encapsulated homes focused on air tightness with spray foam insulation, seeking a higher SEER and efficiency. He’s done rainwater harvesting on every home he’s ever built. That said... More
Project • By Aroma Italiano Eco Design • Private Houses
Bio Domus D.01 Eco Luxury House
Bio Domus D.01 is a sustainable and healthy house designed according to European standards and concept with a special focus on good living and well-being. It is a totally green building project, characterized by wide social spaces and an elegant design, the use of natural materials and neutral colors. It is a reference house in the world panorama of sustainable construction and bio-architecture published in different European and Latin-American magazines.
The basin of the Mediterranean Sea, is the Bio Domus project's leitmotif, where new technologies and ancient rules of "good building" merge to give life to a pure and essential concept based on the bio-architecture principles.
The house is open, simple, and dynamic, inspired by the b... More