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The next day April 20 as part of the next edition of Construmat 2009 , the National Association for 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 Home-Garden sustainable modular.

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

For further information on the architect's work, Green Box, include in its interior "Artificial Nature VI", a Multimedia Project Exhibition Sustainable Architecture and Sustainable Social Housing Luis de Garrido.

Green-Box, seeking the highest level of sustainability.

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

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

On the other hand, the home has a zero energy consumption of conventional energy, self-heat due to its bioclimatic design and optimum utilization of geothermal and solar. Similarly, the design and construction of housing has been performed in order to minimize energy consumption, both in their construction process, as in the process of dismantling.

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

The periphery of the housing is made out of prefabricated reinforced concrete panels, sandwich panels of wood-cement and metal panels. All with the purpose of representing, in the same building, three adequate systems prefabricated modular construction (metal, wood, concrete).

However, despite all the features described, no doubt, the most important and unique Green Box is the sloping green roof and vertical garden. Both gardens have been composed on the basis of indigenous plant species of the Mediterranean, which ensures that only need water (only rain) and its beauty is permanent, maintenance-free.

The garden sloped roof allows housing integrated into the environment as an extension of the surrounding soil. Instead, the vertical garden stands proudly becoming the standard identifier housing. This same vertical garden in the courtyard of the house. Continue reading ...

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