Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Mom's Anal Adventuremaamaria

Prodotti naturali

As it has done well in the food products for the building is spreading the word natural product. Are identified with natural products that have undergone little change. This definition has more of an evocative view, refers to natural healing, which is good, pure as mountain water. Building in a natural way then is to build with materials that are not harmful to health. And 'one of the many paradoxes of the industry and consumers: you can feed with generic stuff that can contain harmful substances or with natural stuff that's good. To accept the endorsement of a product is natural at the same time confirm that it is permissible to produce non-natural materials, ie potentially toxic or harmful.

One yogurt, plaster, ham or treatment for wood flooring can be natural or what? Artificial? Industrial? Synthetics? Artificial
is produced through an art of making or doing of the art. Building a house is an artifact as well as the production of a cheese or wine. Perhaps you missed the ethics of doing-the-art, so you can imagine a world natural origin as opposed to a corrupt world artificial, as if in a mythic past, they knew all the secrets of good bread or good natural home . Not so.
With industrialism, the enlargement of all aspects of living with the rules of industrial production, has established the primacy of savings on the rules of art: to save time, money, effort. To achieve these savings every solution is valid, health, welfare, food take a back seat, as the most mentioned item. This saves time, money and effort but it saves material, waste, energy. In fact the waste of the latter is essential to save the first. This logic did not, however, given the limited resources of the Earth. The Earth has precise limits, the way out of this situation is the substitution of generic supplies of natural materials, but the paradigm shift, the block of material consumption and displacement of human activities from consumption to use and reuse. Only by abandoning the industrial logic will be free to think a new way of building or eating, going beyond the enslavement of consumption.
A society that reduces fuel consumption is not a civilization even poorer. A house warm in winter and cool in summer can be achieved by reducing as much as ten times the energy consumption and procurement of raw material. Not be satisfied since the natural food cerchiamolo but rather light, not calories, but as a commitment of matter and energy.

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Un lucernario bioclimatico


I am completing the construction of a skylight that will function, as well as to enlighten, to create a movement of air in the room. The feature is that the incoming air passes through pipes buried losing heat in contact with cooler surfaces.
The shape of the skylight is designed to reduce the warming and the greenhouse effect. It is in this case local greenhouse effect, in the room, although a bioclimatic skylight contributes to a reduction in the consumption of air conditioning and therefore also reduces the global greenhouse effect.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

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Le case hanno scarsa efficienza energetica

For a long time, the house builders have thought that a good thermal insulation was a useless thing. The houses built so far and many of those still under construction have a very small energy efficiency. Energy efficiency is simply the percentage of energy that we can actually enjoy the form of warm or cool. For cars
efficiency is shown in liters per 100 km., That is how many liters do I burn to a distance of 100 km. For homes
indicates the energy, expressed in kW per square meter per year. Usually this value is within only the energy used to heat the house in winter. In truth, it also consumes energy to light and especially to cool the house in summer. The costs of cooling are to increase consumption by about 25%. Overall, a generic home consumes between 250 kW / sqm per year and 300 kW / sqm per year. An efficient house consumes
30 kW/mq anno (dico 30!) e non ha bisogno di impianto di condizionamento. Questi consumi sono raggiungibili solo se l'intera progettazione dell'edificio tiene conto degli aspetti energetici: orientamento, forma, dimensione e coolocazione delle finestre, materiali, tetto, verde; sono tutti elementi della progettazione architettonica che contribuiscono alla costruzione di case efficienti. La prima causa di architetture inefficienti è degli architetti che hanno dimenticato le regole base della progettazione cioè conoscenza dei luoghi, conoscenza del clima, conoscenza delle abitudini degli abitanti. A ruota, nelle responsabilità, seguono gli impresari, i costruttori, sempre pronti a tagliare voci di spesa.
E' evidente una resistenza by those who guide the housing market not to put the energy issue between the parameters of choosing a new home. The explanation is simple, there is a "stock" of new houses is absolutely inefficient "emptied" before opening the way for efficient homes.

Monday, July 2, 2007

Livignio Grudzień

La città e l'automobile

cars produce pollution every time we use it. Driving a car is more polluting than the action performed by the average citizen. There are two main points of inefficiency, the first is the fact that a small car carrying a person moves 7-8 pounds of steel to move 60-100 kg. the driver and the second is the fact that no more than 35% of the energy produced by the engine changes in motion, the rest is dissipated, that is lost as heat.
The problem is that our cities were built according to the automobile, residential areas, industrial and office complexes, recreational areas, and are only accessible only by car. The paradox is that in the '70s, at the time of the first energy crisis, the Italian cities were still densely populated areas and serve only the big business was located on the outskirts of the city. Although Italy depart from the ideal conditions for the success of public transport is opted, with organic and non-random choices for the expansion of cities and the creation of specialized areas and distant, connected by road networks hierarchical size and amount of traffic projected. Urban development in our country was not random and, at least in the north, was not even affected dall'abusivismo. E 'was chosen by politicians, academics and planners, a pattern already old at the time, and the realization of this model has been pursued with tenacity and determination. Today
has not yet established a town planning can reverse this pattern. Today the city is a slave of the car individually. Only a long-term project, able to reshape the city and ways to cross, if pursued with even greater pervicacia e ostinazione del modello precedente, potrà vedere la progressiva uscita di scena dell’auto individuale. Ci vorrà tempo ma è una scelta obbligata.