Although green architecture and sustainable houses was once viewed as extremely unconventional, it’s becoming a lot more acceptable and popular with the ever-growing eco-friendly people on our planet.

Sustainable Houses and Design

The public and regulative agencies are beginning to acknowledge the actual benefits of Sustainable Houses and this method of building.

The concept of going green in the field of construction usually tackles sustainable building, sustainable architecture, green building, or simply being environmentally friendly.

There is a definite set of principles and methods in green construction to ensure that the environment is protected and that the materials used in building houses and other structures came from sustainable and renewable sources.

When we talk about green construction or green architecture, it covers the phases from designing up to the construction, occupancy, maintenance, renovation and even to the demolition of the structure.

Green architecture aims to work in harmony with the natural features that surround the location of the project, to use construction materials that can be easily grown or that have been recycled and to maximize their usability for sustainable houses.

Green architecture should always keep the environment in mind when designing. Listening to a client and transforming their needs into a workable, energy efficient and environmentally friendly design is a skill and one that you should ensure your choice of green architect has in abundance.

Green architecture has a number of benefits. Not only do you get to help the environment but you can use it for marketing purposes. Many people want to do business with companies who are being environmentally conscientious.

Green architecture and sustainable houses when followed honestly saves you money, but more importantly saves the environment. Keep this in mind when making your decisions.

One of the main standpoints of green architecture is to encourage conservation of water. Minimum consumption of water is to be adopted while building green homes. Ideally the toilets, faucet aerators, shower-heads should be chosen with great care to minimize the water usage in these houses.

Another method used in construction of green architecture is thermal mass. Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs) produce a framework when locked together much like Lego bricks.

This framework forms a permanent and integral part of the building and is pumped full of concrete that has been composed and cured to reduce its thermal conductivity.

This produces the thermal mass required to reduce the effects of outside temperature fluctuations on the ambient temperature inside the building thus reducing energy bills.

Home owners of sustainable houses should also be encouraged to grow drought resistant plants in their gardens.

If you already have a building, you can still benefit from green architecture with some basic remodeling. This includes looking at ways to conserve water, conserve energy and integrate some sustainable materials into your building.

Being eco-friendly is the way of the future. There are many ways green architecture and sustainable houses can be followed and its not just about solar power.

There are no limits to the recycled materials that can be used in green architecture designs. Reclaimed wood can be used for flooring, trim and exposed wood ceilings. Recycled rubber tire chips can be used in landscaping. Even broken glass fragments are being used inside walls for insulation.

When you build a building from the ground up, you get more say as to the green architecture. More buildings are being created with a green emphasis and this is making it easier to find new and innovative designs as well as more sustainable materials. More companies than ever before are targeting builders with products that are environmentally friendly.

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It’s hard to imagine what the architecture of the future has in store for us but if you are interested in having a glimpse into what green homes design might behold, have a look at the article below. For those who have greater interest, there is a link at the end of the article to read it in full.

Green Homes Design

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As part of an ongoing series, we’re spotlighting projects that fit into “Plus” categories, including “Sustainability,” that tap into topical and culturally relevant themes.

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Today, architecture finds itself at a crossroads.

Building materials and new construction, along with the operation and maintenance of buildings, account for a significant sum of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Faced with this fact, how are architects to responsibly pursue the act (and art) of architecture without further deteriorating the planet’s environmental make-up or depleting its resources?

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What forms of high and low technology can be developed to curtail the injurious side  of building?

Can good or even great architecture be sustainable?

The answer, of course, is yes. The best buildings have always shown a concern for their immediate environs and how they fit in with them, whether they were conscious of “sustainability” or not.

Now, all architects and buildings are expected to be engaged with sustainable standards, such as LEED titles, photovoltaic cells, or green roofs – all things that these ten projects have in common.

More at… Architizer – The Future Is Green: Architecture + Sustainability

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I found a very well written article about eco friendly structures, in Cracked.com that I think is well worth sharing with you. For the full article see the bottom of the post for a link.

Construction projects around the globe are looking for ways to incorporate energy efficiency into their designs, occasionally resulting in buildings that look like they were put in place to make James Bond late for his next sexual conquest.

Spain’s Power Tower

Eco Friendly Structures – Solar power tower
By afloresm (SOLUCAR PS10) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

This solar-thermal plant produces enough energy to provide over 11 megawatts of power to over 6,000 places of residence in Seville, Spain.The giant tower in the picture overshadows 600 specifically angled mirrors, which reflect the sun’s rays directly toward a single tiny point near the tower’s roof. Running through that point in the tower is a network of water pipes, which get superheated by the combined might of all that reflected sunlight.The mirrors generate so much heat that the turbines continue to run for over an hour after the sun goes down.

Nanyang Technological University Art School

Eco Friendly Structures – School of art design and media
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The Nanyang Technological University Art School consists of three buildings; with a grass-and-earth roof which insulates the building, while also collecting rainwater to serve as a cooling agent.Additionally, the transparency of virtually every floor of the building allows for natural lighting to come through at every angle, saving over 120,000 kilowatt-hours of energy each year.The California Academy of the Sciences

Eco Friendly Structures – California Academy of Science

The building itself is predominantly made of recycled material – from recycled steel beams to recycled blue jeans in the insulation.

The roof has over 60,000 photovoltaic cells providing solar energy for the entire structure. In addition to the solar energy harvested on the roof, the plant life on the sloping hills of Hobbiton Academy actually insulate the building, lowering their energy consumption to 30 percent below federal requirements.

The Bahrain World Trade Center

Eco Friendly Structures
Bahrain World Trade Center
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Standing 50 stories tall, the two buildings are linked by three skybridges that each support a 95-foot-long wind turbine.The sail shape of the towers creates a wind tunnel that increases the efficiency of the turbines.Tthe turbines produce enough electricity to power approximately 300 homes each day.More at … 4 eco friendly structures straight out science fiction | cracked.com

I must say these Eco Friendly structures are quite amazing and absolutely awe-inspiring.

I think it is fantastic that so many architects and companies are looking to the future when designing buildings for the 21st century.

Buildings and structures that are self sustainable in energy must be a good thing.

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