As theArch. Roberto Sacchi, design green it means many more things compared to the usual commitment that a technician has to face. First of all it means operate with ecological awarenesswith a holistic vision and with ethics, concepts that should be the daily bread of any designer, but which in reality are not a given.
Together with respect for the rules of good constructionin compliance with the urban planning parametersof the building regulationsof the multiple regulations and the supervision of the rule of artit is also necessary to investigate the many aspects that involve theinteraction of the project with the natural environmentwith the contextwith thehabitat and with the choice of new materialsbut also with theinteraction with existing onesto preserve the health of the inhabitants and the local culture.
What are the five basic ingredients for designing a Green Home?
The basic ingredients for designing, building and/or living in a green home, in short, include:
- there choice of building materials which must be healthy, natural, preferably sustainable, but if they are not, at least they must have recyclable characteristics, which do not cause damage to the environment and to all the inhabitants of planet Earth: human and animal nature;
- theadoption of sustainable construction technologies and therefore not impacting the environment, or if they do not, that they are adopted to a minimum to safeguard the integrity of the soil and available resources;
- there care of the casingwhich is high-performance from a static, seismic, thermal in all seasons, hygrometric, acoustic and safety point of view;
- thecardinal orientationwhich is favourable to sunlight especially in open spaces, which exploits the position of the sun for energy and thermal production, which, if exposed to the wind, is well protected from the air and can exploit kinetic energy for domestic needs;
- there site locationwhich, through the materials and technologies adopted for the construction of the building, does not interfere with the energy stability of the Earth’s magnetic field, which is not exposed to electromagnetic fields deriving from power lines, radio, TV and mobile phone repeaters and which does not stand on unstable, damp ground, contaminated by previous industrial uses or other polluting factors and where there is no radon gas, methane gas or other.
