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GREEN-BOX, GREENBOX, GREEN BOX. The sustainable Garden-House of the future.LUIS DE GARRIDO’s latest prototype home. Construmat 2009. 20th to 25th April. Gran Via Venue. Barcelona. The architect Luis de Garrido is presenting his latest sustainable home prototype, GREEN BOX, in New York city (Tuesday 21st April, GLASSHOUSE Museum,Chelsea Arts Tower, 545 West 25th Street). The home will be built in Barcelona to celebrate the Construmat 2009 International Construction Fair (being presented on 20th April, and exhibited from 20th to 25th April, in the Gran Via venue. Palacio 1. Av. Joan Carles I, 58. Fira de Barcelona).
GREEN BOX is the first modular Garden-House that is prefabricated, reusable, transportable, has an infinite life cycle, is bioclimatic, has zero energy consumption, and does not generate waste. Thanks to its advanced characteristics, GREEN BOX will be built in just 15 days (from 4th to 19th April), and the process can be seen in real time on the Internet. Inside the building there is a Multimedia Exhibition on Projects about Sustainable Architecture and Social Housing, by Luis de Garrido (ISBA’s “Architect of the Year 2008”): “Artificial Nature IV”.
GREEN BOX. “TOWARDS ANOTHER ARCHITECTURE” The National Association for Sustainable Architecture (ANAS), together with the National Association for the Home of the Future (ANAVIF) and the National Directorate of Companies for Sustainable Architecture (DINAS) is presenting next 20th April this special home which, without a doubt, will be the center of attention at Construmat 2009. Designed by the architect Luis de Garrido (recently chosen as “Architect of the Year 2008” by the International Steel Building Association ISBA, and American Institute of Architects AIA), the home could be an international benchmark in sustainable architecture, as it comprehensively meets all of the known sustainable indicators. In fact, Luis de Garrido states that GREEN-BOX is the building that is nearest to his conceptual architectural model of “Artificial Nature”. In addition to its totally ecological character, the home is very economical: Building it costs half what a conventional building would cost (about 550 euros m2), so that it could become a building model for the new social and economic system.
The building’s architectural structure is totally flexible. The building’s interior is completely diaphanous, and its architectural structure enables any kind of indoor compartmentalising. The home may thus become an office, a residence, apartments, a museum, exhibition hall, etc. Similarly, the home may be extended, reduced or modified simply and with no need for building work, nor any waste generation.
The home has zero conventional energy consumption, and regulates itself thermally through its bio-climatic design and optimum use of geothermal and solar energy. In the same way, the home’s design and construction has been carried out with the aim of reducing its energy consumption to a minimum in both its building process and its dismantling process. All of the building’s components have been designed in a modular way to be dry-assembled. Thus, just as occurs in building it, dismantling it does not generate any waste and all of its parts can be used again. As a result, by repairing or replacing each one of the parts, the building has an infinite life cycle. That is to say, its useful life is infinite. The supporting structure of the homes has been made with prefabricated panels of reinforced concrete, sandwich panels of cement-wood, and metallic panels. The purpose of all of this is to show in one building the three most suitable systems of modular construction (steel, wood, concrete). Nevertheless, in spite of all of the characteristics described, no doubt the most important and unique feature of GREEN BOX is the landscaped, sloping garden roof and the vertical garden. Both gardens have been made with autochthonous Mediterranean plant species, which ensures that they hardly need water (just rainwater) and their beauty is permanent, every day of the year. Of course they do not need maintenance. The sloping garden-roof enables the building to be integrated into any environment, since it becomes established as an extension to the surrounding ground. On the other hand, the vertical garden stands proud, becoming the home’s identifying hallmark. The same vertical garden is to be found in the home’s interior patio. Thanks to its advanced characteristics, GREEN BOX will be built in just 15 days, in the city of Barcelona. It will be dismantled in 7 days and transported to Toledo, where it will be definitively installed.
Multimedia exhibition “Artificial Nature VI” Inside, the home houses an exhibition on Projects involving sustainable architecture and sustainable social housing, over a total area of 200 m2. In this exhibition, through 10 video projectors and multimedia effects, the conceptual bases of sustainable architecture are shown, as well as new low-cost sustainable social housing proposals of great added value.
This is a selection of 70 architectural projects created by the architect Luis de Garrido over the last eight years: single family homes, housing blocks, social housing, urban estates, urban recycling activities, office buildings, unique buildings, hotels, skyscrapers, bridges,…
It is a multimedia exhibition: 10 projectors continuously show the different projects on semi-transparent methacrylate panels. In this way the viewer can concentrate on just one projector or have a complete idea as a whole. Moreover, as the screens are semi-transparent the projects can be seen from both sides. This enables the visitor to make the most of their short tour and to see on leaving what they did not have time to see on entering. On each one of the screens an endless video is continuously projected, showing a set of interactive images, photographs, infographics, videos, sketches, and general information on each one of the 70 projects examined. Each one of the static images is shown for two seconds, and the dynamic images (videos) last 20 seconds. On each screen there are two loudspeakers that inform the nearby visitors about the characteristics of the projects shown there. Each one of the videos lasts a total of 10 minutes. Thus, throughout the day each video will be shown 50 times. In this way, each visitor may have a different perception of the same exhibition.
It should be taken into account that each one of the videos shows a different set of projects and lasts a different time, so that each screen has a different pace of repetition. Therefore, the same combination of images is never repeated, and if the same person were to visit the exhibition several times they would never see the same.
Each projector shows a certain kind of sustainable architecture project, so that each visitor can choose the one that most interests them.
Projector 1: Low-cost one-family homes
Projector 2: Medium-cost one-family homes
Projector 3: High-cost one-family homes
Projector 4: Experimental homes
Projector 5: Collective housing and urban estates
Projector 6: Government protected housing
Projector 7: GREEN BOX
Projector 8: Unique buildings
Projector 9: Eco-urban planning, and large-scale activities
Projector 10: Skyscrapers
The exhibition includes such emblematic projects as: R4House, Vitrohouse, Green-Box, Pontmare Skyscrapers, La Llum Skyscrapers, Ecopolis 3000, Casa Mariposa house, Sayab, Tecnópolis, Berimbau Lighthouse, Mondragón Complex, Lliri Blau, etc… Projector 7 will be showing details of the GREEN BOX prototype, including the building process followed over the 15 days that were taken to build it.
GREEN-BOX has the highest possible level of sustainability . The prototype complies perfectly with the 5 basic pillars on which Sustainable Architecture rests:
1. Optimisation of resources and materials
2. Reduction of waste and emissions to the environment
3. Reduction of energy consumption and use of renewable energies.
4. Improvement of human quality of life and health
5. Reduction in the building’s price of construction and maintenance....
1. Optimisation of resources and materials
Use of recovered, reused and recycled materials. All of the materials used in GREEN BOX are reused and recycled. In the same way, all of the materials can be recovered, reused and recycled. With no exceptions whatsoever.
Reuse...All of the prototype’s components can be used again and again, so that their life cycle is infinite.
Zero toxicity...The materials used do not have any kind of emission nor substance harmful to the environment.
High durability...The prototype has infinite durability since it can be easily repaired.
2. Reduction of waste and emissions...
In manufacturing the materials... In obtaining the materials that make up GREEN BOX no type of waste nor emissions have been generated.
In building the prototype...No kind of waste will be generated in setting up the prototype. The parts will simply be put in place by pressure, gravity or cable ties, so that all the components can be recovered and reused again.
In the building’s useful life...There is no waste nor emissions during the prototype’s useful life.
In dismantling...The prototype has been designed in such a way as not to generate any waste upon dismantling. All of the materials will remain intact and ready to be used again as many times as necessary.
3. Reduction of energy consumption and use of renewable energies...
Obtaining materials...All of the materials have been chosen due to their low energy cost. In addition, as all the materials are pre-fabricated, the necessary energy consumption has been reduced to a minimum.
Construction...Minimum energy is going to be used since a modular building system has been employed. For this reason, a team of only 5 people will be needed to set it up.
Dismantling...Dismantling is very simple and consumes very little energy, since the parts only have to be removed in reverse order from which they were placed upon setting up.
Transport of the material and workforce...The materials and workforce will be from Barcelona. There is no need for specialised labor.
Useful life...It can be said that an infinite useful life has been achieved for the prototype, since if any part breaks it is simply repaired or replaced with an alternative.
4. Improvement of human quality of life and health...
There are no emissions harmful to people, animals or the environment at any stage of manufacture of any of the prototype’s parts, nor during its useful life (if it is built to be permanent), nor in dismantling it.
5. Reduction in the building’s price of construction and maintenance...
The prototype’s maintenance costs are very low. The only maintenance in the short term is cleaning. As for cleaning staff, this has not been necessary for the prototype.
Bioclimatic characteristics...
1.1. Heat generation systems
The home heats itself up in two ways: 1. Avoiding cooling down: due to high thermal insulation, and with large glass surface areas only to the south. 2. Through careful and special bioclimatic design, and its perfect N-S orientation, the home heats up by means of the greenhouse effect, direct solar radiation, and heating through a solar radiating floor. It also stays warm for a long time, owing to its high heat capacity.
1.2. Cold generation systems
The home cools down by itself, in three ways: 1. Avoiding heating up: by having most of the glass surface area facing south and hardly east, by having solar protections for direct or indirect solar radiation (a different type of protection for each one of the recesses with a different orientation), and by having suitable insulation. 2. Cooling down through an architectural air cooling system by means of underground galleries. In addition, due to the building’s high heat capacity, the coolness accumulated overnight is maintained throughout nearly the whole of the following day. 3. By letting hot air out of the building through the upper windows of the central indoor patio. The sloping shape of the roof encourages natural convection and provides an effective “chimney effect” to extract hot air from inside the building.In addition, the main central tower is covered with cement-wood panels. On heating up these panels through the effect of solar radiation, the air indoors heats up. On heating up, this air rises and escapes through perforations in the panels. Thus, a suction current is created, which extracts the home’s re-heated air. In this way, the home stays cools at all times.
3. Accumulation systems (heat or coolness)
Heat generated during the day in winter accumulates in the suspended floors and the load-bearing walls, keeping the home warm during the night. In the same way, coolness generated during the night in summer accumulates in the suspended floors and the load-bearing walls, keeping the home cool during the day. The landscaped roof has a high heat capacity, which reinforces this process.
4. Transference systems (heat or coolness).
Heat generated by the greenhouse effect and natural radiation spreads out in the form of hot air through the whole building from the central greenhouse. In the same way, the radiating floor heating system is spread out over the whole house. The heat built up in the load-bearing walls is transmitted to the side rooms by radiation. The fresh air generated in the underground galleries spreads out over the home by means of a set of grilles distributed through the home’s forging. This current of air cools all of the home’s rooms.
5. Natural ventilation
The building is ventilated continually and naturally through the outer walls themselves, which allows for adequate ventilation without energy losses. This kind of ventilation is possible is possible because all of the materials used are breathable (ceramics, natural insulation, concrete panels, cement-wood panels, organic paints).
An infinite life cycle... All of the components of GREEN BOX have been designed to be dry-assembled using screws, nails and by applying pressure. They can thus be easily extracted from the building in order to be repaired, reused or replaced. In this way, the building can last ad infinitum, at a very low energy cost.
Re-use and transportability
All of GREEN BOX’s features (even the sloping garden and the vertical garden) have been designed so as to be easily assembled and taken apart indefinitely. This is why these features can be transported anywhere to be easily assembled (in less than a week) as many times as necessary.
Construction report. Ecological features
1. Foundations
Prefabricated reinforced concrete panels.
2. Horizontal structure
Prefabricated reinforced concrete panels, assembled together by means of screwed-in metal profile sections.
Screwed-in metal profile sections.
3. Interior coverings.
Wood panels, panelate, polycarbonate, ECO panels, methacrylate, and GEA ecological paints.
4. Layout features
Polycarbonate, methacrylate and reinforced concrete panels.
5. Façade
Ventilated façade using extrusion-molded ceramics held in place by means of folded metal plate profile sections. Façade installations made of recycled paper towels from aeroplanes, and plastic bottles.
6. Floorings
Ecological parquet treated with oils and FSC wood. ECO panels.
7. Paints
GEA ecological paints with water dissolved, without biocides, organic pigments and high CPV.
8. Insulation
Façade installations made by recycling paper towels from aeroplanes, and plastic bottles. Insulation of sheep’s wool, hemp and wood fiber.
9. Outside coverings and sunshades for the windows
IPE wood treated with Borax salts and finishings based on lasures.
10. Outside carpentry
Hazelnut laminated wood carpentry.
11. Glass
Double-glazing (6-10-4) with an air chamber.
12. Roofing
Landscaped roofing with insulation made of wood fiber (8cm), waterproofing Sopralene sheet, a filter sheet of unweaved synthetic fiber, geo-textile drainage sheet, and a substratum of vegetation (40% sand, 60% plant waste).
13. Finishings and guttering
Galvanized plate lacquered in red.
14. Vertical garden structure
50 X 50 cm net panels that can be taken down, to hold vegetation and the hydroponic watering system.
15. Vertical garden
Vegetation species adapted to the Mediterranean, with hydroponic watering.
16. Sloping garden (of the roof garden)
Species of vegetation that are native to the Mediterranean, with no need for watering (lavender, rosemary, thyme,…)
17. Lighting
Exclusively LED lighting shall always be used.
18. Plumbing facilities
Polypropylene pipes.
19. Bathroom fittings
Polyethylene pipes.
20. Electrical installations
Polypropylene pipes and cables free of halogens material.
21. Solar heating system
Solar heat collectors for producing S.H.W
22. Boilers and solar-heated floor
Condensing boilers and high performance solar collectors.
23. Geothermal system
Geothermal system by means of piles, integrated with a solar system and condensing boilers.
The most notable innovations in GREEN BOX...An infinite life cycle...
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