Green House Design
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 by admin # Homedesign
Awareness of the importance of environmental conservation is increasingly spreading. Almost all elements of society and the profession mendengungkannya. Not to mention the residential property developer.
Basically, eco-friendly house designs is not new, because is still dominated by a minimalist design. Only, this minimalist design will be combined with other designs that can accommodate global warming. For example energy efficient house design.
In other words, energy efficient design into a modern and minimalist as a stepping while accents.
According Urbane Indonesia PT architect Ridwan Kamil, the trend of home design in 2009 will be dominated awareness of the importance of protecting the environment. Eco-friendly consciousness will be an inspiration for architects to design houses and other buildings. “People will be more selective in buying a home,” he said.
Also environmentally friendly home is not just jargon, but also must see the benefits for the environment and residents. For example, the use of flat roofs and use the landscape or commonly called a green roof. Green roof can be used as parks. Application of a green roof can reduce heat inside the house.
One study says, when plants in the roof has a height of about 10 cm, it can reduce air conditioning usage around 25 percent. A room located directly below the green roof has a lower air temperature, which is about 3 degrees to 4 degrees Celsius compared with outdoor air temperatures.
Green roof and green wall also functions as an air filter that makes the air cleaner. For information, every single square meter of grass on the roof can remove approximately 0.2 kg of dirty air particles each year.
Other features are the many environmentally friendly houses naturally as intermittent aeration utilization of natural and natural lighting.
Design houses such a way that is not entirely dependent on air conditioning and lighting.
In utilizing sunlight, which is required is “light” it, while “hot” it avoided. One way is to use the east / west / or north / south. So that the window should be canopied with direct exposure to sunlight can be minimized.
besides, the house also has many open-aperture. This is intended to facilitate air circulation. Houses with a design like that, of course improve the quality of occupant health. In addition, many houses have openings tend to be more energy efficient.
To make it look more beautiful, openings are designed with minimalist characteristics. “Openings wider without any ornaments,” said Kamil.
However, he suggested, would be better if the design is built customized with its tropical climate of Indonesia. Because, there are times when people prefer a design that follows the climate abroad. Suppose only use material which decayed rapidly when used for tropical climate.
Factors that support an environmentally friendly house to house, among others:
1. The use of lightweight steel roof truss of this mild steel in response to the increasing depletion of our forests of timber. Mild steel more effectively in the applications atap.Pengerjaannya more efficient in time, and more precision because the factory made.
2. sills, shutters, doors use aluminum / PVC / UPVC
3. Ceiling using the framework of gypsum and iron holow
4. High Roof
This is useful for air circulation inside the house.
5. Width Tritisan
6. Many openings
7. High Ceiling
8. Canopy of each window
9. Building area should be no more than 60% of the land
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