Firstly I'd like to start off this blog by saying that now that Taryn is living it up in the Canary Islands, I will be your resident blogger for the next two weeks and I have big shoes to fill, believe me!
So when I thought of writing a story today, I found one that I think is particularly interesting, the ecological home! Before you dismiss it, hear me out.
A spanish architect, Luis Del Garrido, has come up with a ground breaking design of an ecological home. It's a pre fabricated house which intergartes perfectly into the environment and is half the price of a convential house. Sounds like a winner to me......
His design, called Green Box, takes only two weeks to assemble and hardly uses any energy or generates any waste, making the most of a bioclimatic design and using geothermal and solar energy. An underground chamber cools air in summer and warms it in winter, and glass walls facing south act as heating for the water system.
An example is being assembled now in Barcelona, and will be presented officially in New York on Tuesday April 21.
Its modular design means that as well as a home the box can become an office, apartments, museum or exhibition area, it can be expanded, reduced and changed at any time in a simple fashion, and all components are re-usable. A team of five people is all that is needed to build the property in 15 days.
To end off today's blog, I want to share a little fact with you, we are the only species that adapts the environment to suit us, all other species do it the other way around, with that said I think it's time we gave mother nature a break for a change. What do you think?
