Houses think green! / [editor, concept and project director, Josep Maria Minguet ; co-author, Óscar Mira].

Contributor(s): Minguet, Josep María [editor.] | Mira, Oscar [Co-author, translator.]
Language: English, Spanish Publisher: Barcelona : Monsa, [2013]Copyright date: © 2013Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : color illustrations, plans ; 30 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9788415223832Subject(s): Ecological houses | Architecture, Domestic -- Environmental aspects | Sustainable architectureDDC classification: 728
Contents:
Velux atika -- Rainshine house -- Barksdale residence -- Glass house -- Camouflage house -- English residence -- Eco-sustainable house -- Pool house -- Casa locarno -- HSU house -- Cliff house
Summary: The basic goals of the sustainability are based on reducing the consumption of non-renewable resources, minimizing the waste and creating healthy and productive environments. This volume illustrates vividly the current collaboration between modern architecture, contemporaneous inner design, committed landscaping and environmental responsibility. It is an innovating book which presents ecological and sustainable dwellings; residences which add the sustainable design at the serve of the quality design, as a premise on equal terms to sustainability. Each project is presented through a vast full-color photography collection, maps, detailed, schemes and diagrams of the solutions provided; ideas created by architects who are environmental conscious who have achieved practical, suprising and innovating solutions, adapting the program and the taste and needs of their clients to the environment.
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Velux atika -- Rainshine house -- Barksdale residence -- Glass house -- Camouflage house -- English residence -- Eco-sustainable house -- Pool house -- Casa locarno -- HSU house -- Cliff house

The basic goals of the sustainability are based on reducing the consumption of non-renewable resources, minimizing the waste and creating healthy and productive environments. This volume illustrates vividly the current collaboration between modern architecture, contemporaneous inner design, committed landscaping and environmental responsibility. It is an innovating book which presents ecological and sustainable dwellings; residences which add the sustainable design at the serve of the quality design, as a premise on equal terms to sustainability. Each project is presented through a vast full-color photography collection, maps, detailed, schemes and diagrams of the solutions provided; ideas created by architects who are environmental conscious who have achieved practical, suprising and innovating solutions, adapting the program and the taste and needs of their clients to the environment.

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