#lowimpact
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Project • By Bambook Studio • Private Houses
Villa Serena
The clients, a couple who’s dream is to have a self-sufficient home in a tropical paradise so they can spend their holidays and eventually retire, ask us to design a Net Zero Luxury Home in the hills of Prabu, near Kuta, South Lombok.
The site has an elongated sloped shape with an East-West predominant orientation and no water provision, which provides a challenge to the architect: The views are towards the South and the morning and evening sun bring intense heat loads.
Guillermo F. Florez
Given that the house must be self-sufficient the proposed layout of the house’s spaces is based on the passive design studies done by the architect: • The living room, kitchen and the bedrooms are prote... More
K-BRIQ
OVERVIEW
The Challenge Over 60% of all waste globally is of construction origin, with huge quantities of this waste ending in landfill. Additionally, traditional bricks and blocks are made from precious, finite raw materials which involve high energy for extraction as well as manufacture into finished fired products. It is key for the architecture, design and construction sectors to reduce their waste, become more circular and to find more sustainable low carbon means to development and a net zero society.
The Technology This unfired construction unit has excellent sustainability credentials - having over 90% recycled content from construction waste, low energy input in its production when compared to traditional clay-fired... More