Designing and building Green houses
This technical text, updated to the recent EPBD (CD Case Green) directive, provides information on how to design and build a green house, from the foundations to the roof. The work is structured in chapters, which refer to the individual construction components of the building, such as the foundations, the walls, the roof, the floors, etc. construction elements and materials are analyzed by distinguishing their bioedi and sustainable components, Considering that the two terms are not synonyms of the same concept. It represents the most recent and complete attempt to systematize knowledge, techniques and materials representative of a “green” approach to construction. But green building is not simply “the art of building according to nature”. As the author highlights: the Green house, like any other constructive form, is based on mediation, or on the acceptance of those materials and those technologies not properly derived from nature, but which constitute a conditio sine here, because they do not have A valid “natural” alternative and therefore are indispensable to achieve a precise purpose. In the age of green or in green building does not therefore mean rejecting and excluding the synthetic materials a priori, for example, but, on the contrary, optimizing its use. It works, therefore, for its completeness, the scientific rigor and the never abstract discussion, guides the reader in an exciting technical and ethical path to learn to design and build sustainable, green and ecological houses. Culture & Environment, CasaClima Consultant and expert in ecology of architecture, with over -nentennance experience in the study of materials and insulators in construction. Co-founder of the Edep (National Institute of Diagnostics and Building Pathology), since 2005 has been teaching the Polis Maker Master of the Polytechnic of Milan.
