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Showing posts with label Green Home Designs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green Home Designs. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Green Home Remodeling in San Francisco

Open Space Concept House renovation with Beau Artificial Pond. This project location on the peninsula south of San Francisco. The concept of Open Space was adopted to get closer to nature. So we also categorize this concept as a concept into a green house.

It was built in the 1950s but recently renovated. A beautiful artificial pond was brought there to give a strong impression - Back To Nature. Family members brought on vacation retreat into everyday life.

The home is composed of four parts - the main room, read or study rooms, a swimming pool of your home garage. Everything is focused on parks, pools and ponds. There is also a terrace around the pool which is separated from the interior with glass sliding doors. Photovoltaic solar roof panels and hide the hot water. Houses are heated by shining on the stone floor system, and although the climate is not hot air, but passively cooled with a combination of overhangs, shades, and windows that can be opened. He also has many green building materials, including high fly-ash concrete, casework and formaldehyde-free insulation denim. [via]


Outside the home garden design.

Post Title Green Home Remodeling in San Francisco

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Friday, January 8, 2010

Tips To Make the Minimalist Home Designs Pollution


Tips to make the minimalist home designs Pollution

Picture details on the second floor balcony, with a roof garden, and a secondary skin trick avoid sunlight directly into the house. But still there is a smooth flow of water into the house.

Tips Eco-design: Figure dream house, House Green / Eco Friendly: The house Comfortably in the middle of the water pollution.

Model dream house is not good enough if only the eye. Half thought that the ancient, self-centered and tend to be narcissistic. The concept of minimalist homes, modern homes, traditional houses, or any of today must be added an element that is environmentally friendly!

In the world of architectural concepts of environmentally friendly design called ecodesign. What are the requirement to design environmentally friendly houses? The following explanations and examples.

The house that is environmentally friendly house that integrates the entire process of unity by considering the consequences for the environment. That is, since the beginning of the process of design, development and utilization of building various aspects considered.

Aspects that should be considered primarily:
1. Consumption of resources-saving and efficient (energy, materials, water and land)
2. Emissions both to air, water and related land and environmental health
3. Others (such as noise and vibration).

If you want to apply ecodesign for your dream house, concrete can be a lot. For example, house-rich sun, so electricity can be saved. A lot of windows and a smooth air flow so you do not need air conditioning. Sufficient land for the well catchment. Green room, aka the garden which supplies clean air requirements. Installation of sewerage and waste that can be recycled. Utilization of building materials that are not wasteful. And others. And so on.

Whew, it turns out many aspects that must be diperhatiakan in design. Of course, not all designs can always accommodate all aspects. But minimal. Once again minimum: You should not spend the whole land for the house, or covered with cement. You need to take into account that every room to get sunlight and air enough. Use lights and put points on the optimal place.

In the example below we try ecodesign concepts apply in a 3-story building. Note that in each floor, we provide open space that can be used for garden or ornamental plants, abundant air flow, yet remain shielded from the sun

XGambar perspective looks home and various pieces of angle that shows the placement of green space on all floors.

Sample Image Detail architecture which shows the garden in front and behind the house. Park became integral part of the whole building.

Post Title Tips To Make the Minimalist Home Designs Pollution

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Monday, December 21, 2009

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Green Home Designs


Green Home Designs | Minimalist Home Designs

Planning to make a minimalist home green. A green home plan will try to use environmentally friendly building materials and furniture and will combine the rest as much as possible. A green home design will use renewable materials and durability.

Green house growing demand for new features

Today home buyers ask for more green features as a means to reduce costs, become more environmentally friendly, and adopt a lifestyle more healthy.

Green features into one of three priorities, after the price and location. Green features focus on energy efficiency, water efficiency, resource efficiency and indoor air quality and the elements include Energy Star appliances, low flow shower heads, carpet and paint with organic compounds of low volatile, and building materials from suppliers local.

The average green buyers would shell out $ 12,000 - on average - for green features, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB) green building standards program manager Kevin Morrow expects the market share of green-certified homes rose to 20 percent in 2010 from about 10 percent in 2009 and 2 percent in 2006.

Tax credit and other financial incentives, coupled with a green certification, making it easier for buyers, contractors, and real estate professionals to go and build a minimalist green home designs.

Post Title Green Home Designs

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