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Eco architecture, or a way of architecture that seeks to create a lower environmental impact, would be interlinked with organic, sustainable, bioclimatic, eco-design architecture, etc…
This architecture is based on taking advantage from natural resources, and trying to minimize the impact of buildings on the environment and its inhabitants.
Eco architects seek to reduce energy consumption for heating, cooling, and lighting the building…. covering the demand of these needs with renewable energy sources. Energy efficiency challenges architecture to create useful techniques that reduce the building’s energy consumption needs, fueling energy savings, either by seeking to capture solar energy or by generating their own.
Environmentally sustainable constructions include economic, social and environmental aspects.
These buildings are built in locations where the environmental impact is minor, focusing on issues related to energy consumption, water, and chemicals used in the construction.
The materials and energy used in these constructions should be renewable. They use green electricity: photovoltaic energy (solar panels), geothermal (collected from the ground, which is formed by the waste generated by the property itself and that can be used to generate biogas energy to satisfy the needs of the building).
Water: Conservation and integration of rainwater, thus using recycled water to irrigate the garden, etc..
Bioclimatic architecture takes into account the environmental conditions of the area in which the building will be located, thus achieving an interior welfare with little need for a/c or heating systems. In order to do this, the architect takes advantage of the natural sources of light, heat and cold, using techniques such as orientation, insulation of walls, to partially bury the house or placing vegetation on the roof. These techniques are used depending on the type of weather that should be counteracted (very warm or very cold). In fact, bioclimatic architecture has been present in the traditional architecture of countries such as Iceland and other Nordic countries, where you can find houses that have vegetation on their roofs during the long, cold winter periods in order to temper the house. Green roofs improve insulation by reducing the heat and cold that gets onto the roofs, and filter pollution and absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
Zen architects have several proposals for green homes.
….. to celebrate last Christmas and the incoming year 2011, the main Spanish and European cities were illuminated with “design”.
For several months starting december 4 2010, the Luce Della Exposizione Internazionale di Milano was open to the public. This exhibition aimed to shine the city with light installations from famous designer such as Matteo Thun & Partners or Fabio Novembre, along with projects of young professionals and students from schools of design, who presented their projects at the pre-Led Award Contest, sponsored by the Comune di Milano, Corriere della Sera, H & M, Nespresso, Luce & Design, Ubi Banca, a2a, Audi, Guzzini, Swarovsky, Santa & Cole ….. among others.
The projects were located in the streets (Via Montenapoleone), plazas, fountains, parks, monuments, palaces, which, added to the project of interior lighting that highlights Duomo’s windows that was put together by the studio of Castagna & Pavelli with Philips, formed the circuit of the 2nd LED display 2010.
LEDs, with all its variations (white, colored, OLEDs) provide energy, efficiency, miniaturization, control, automation and other possibilities to illuminate the future in ways that one cannot even imagine.
These pictures are just a short compilation of images from this exhibition with a design created by different color LEDs, with light being THE essence of decoration in different areas of Milan.
Erco is one of the companies that promotes LED lighting, and is in continuous research and development of this lighting system to come up with innovative decorations, with international presence (“Light + Building 2010″ in Frankfurt), and in our country.
