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| Green Concept Mileikowsky’s House in Belgium by Samyn and Partners Posted: 21 Apr 2013 05:07 AM PDT
The Mileikowsky's House built in 600 m2 area located in Linkebeek Belgium, designed with sustainable material and concept by Samyn and Partners. The building presents curved and vegetalised facades that are very private and closed to the neighborhoods to the north, the east and the south. In contrast, the west facade is entirely glass-walled as if it were one huge partitioned window. The construction includes the street level of an existing small house. It now houses the entry hall, a large office and a kitchen ; the living-room and the stairway are in the extension to the building. The professional studios occupy all the cellars as well as part of the second floor.The remainder of this floor includes the master bedroom with its bathroom, as well as five children's rooms and sanitary installations. They are equipped with a mezzanine protected by textile netting that leads to the glassed-wall facade. Immense translucid white polyester curtains in widths of 1.6 m suspended from the top of the structure to the ground floor run along this great « window » to ensure shade in the summer months.Initially conceived as a wall of ivy with a patinated copper roof, the vegetational facade is finally composed of a selection of exotic plants chosen by the botanical artist Patrick Blanc, and extends to cover the roof. It was necessary to determine the structure, the insulation, and the water-tightness of the envelope and resolve some building physics issues in order to receive the necessary support systems, irrigation and fertilization systems for the plants that are set into a felt support stapled to rigid PVC panels. – Samyn and Partners.
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| Sustainable Schierle House in Germany by Matthias Benz Posted: 20 Apr 2013 05:07 PM PDT
The Schierle House designed by Matthias Benz, adopt the simple geometry combine two solid volumes enabling to maintain and improve the neighboring homes view over the valley. The volume containing the spaces to be shared by the family was characterized through facades and a slate-stone roof. Working with Rathscheck Schiefer, a special emphasis was placed on developing the capabilities to build with slate stone, stressing the solution of corner details. Through the integration of the pitched roof required by city planning regulations plus the vertical shifting needed to adapt to the hillside, a volume evoking a modern monolith, covered by an ancient over 400-million-year material, whose silky glitter attains the perfect environmental integration, was obtained.
This house using recyclable materials and inclusion of energy saving concepts, likes wood structure with flax insulation, cellulose, and wood-fiber board was the option selected to obtain a thermal conductivity coefficient of 0.14W/m²K as average value for all the facades. A 35-meter-depth heating pump with 5 geothermal probes benefits from the earth-generated/stored heat for heating purposes.
The great windows placed at the south façade allow the maximum use of natural light, while the 4-meter-hight obtained through vertical shifting to adapt to ground displacement takes advantage of the currents ascending the slope to ventilate interiors in summer. The total energy consumption of this home is 65% under the values permitted by German Energy (ENEV 2007) Norms. This achievement allowed the house to be included into a "sustainable architecture" tour organized by Bavaria's Chamber of Architecture on 2009. To round off the ecological concept used, a second phase will be approached adding photovoltaic panels and rain water collectors. – Photos by Thomas Benz and Rathschek Schiefer The post Sustainable Schierle House in Germany by Matthias Benz appeared first on Home & House Design Ideas | Interior. |
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