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. Constructive elements and the 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 nonsense qua non, because they do not have a valid “natural” alternative and therefore are essential to achieve a precise purpose. Summary, for example, but, on the contrary, optimize its use. 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.Roberto Sacchiarcho architect freelance, owner of the Culture & Environment Consultant, Consultant CasaClima and expert in ecology of the architecture, with experience. over the ultra -year -year in the study of materials and insulators in construction. Co-founder of the Edep (National Institute of Diagnostics and Building Pathology), since 2005 he has carried out teaching activities at the Polis Maker Master of the Polytechnic of Milan.
