150 Best Eco House Ideas
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150 Best Eco House Ideas

Marta Serrats

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150 Best Eco House Ideas

Marta Serrats

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Featuring an extensive collection of full-color photographs, 150 Best Eco House Ideas features eco-friendly house designs created by internationally renowned architects and designers who have achieved practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and tastes of their clients. Included here are the latest innovations in sustainable home design, including solar paneling, wind energy systems, environmentally-friendly heating and cooling solutions, thermal glazing, and trombe walls.

150 Best Eco House Ideas covering the diversity of current trends in sustainable home design, and is both the perfect resource for designers, interior decorators, and architects, as well an inspirational sourcebook for all homeowners interested in creating warm and inviting homes that cause only a fraction of the environmental impact of those created using conventional building methods.

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Publisher
Harper
Year
2011
ISBN
9780062109545

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Twin House
Architect: UdA
Location: Revigliasco, Italy
Year of construction: 2008
Photography: Carola Ripamonti
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This two-story house faces south and uses a ventilated facade method. Its structure is composed of brick and glass surfaces incorporating a patterned adhesive film. The external surface is clad with thermoset phenolic resin wood panels and a synthetic grass layer covering the exposed parts.
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A building’s orientation should be influenced by its source of energy. Glazed openings and long facades should face south.
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A walkway was built to give access to the
interior of the house from its roof.
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Plan
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Energy diagrams
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Geothermal heating and cooling extracts heat or sends it into the ground by means of collectors buried in the subsoil.
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Farmhouse
Architect: Einar Jarmund, Håkon Vigsnæs, Alessandra Kosberg/Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Arkitekter MNAL
Location: Toten, Norway
Year of construction: 2008
Photography: Nils Petter Dale
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This house was built next to a vacant farm. The planks, part of the structure of the old farm, were reused for the ...

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