Starting Small

   

Below you will find 2 screenshots. The first is of the floor plan of a small villa for 2 or 3 people. The second is a 3 dimensional front view rendered on the computer to simulate mass and real materials. This is done to give you an idea of how your home will look before it is even built.

Small Villa Floor Plan
From top left to right we have a bathroom, a bedroom and a kitchen/dining room with a living room on the bottom left and the entrance just to the right of it.
Small Villa Front View
This is a project that can easily be tackled by an ambitious young couple, or old for that matter, who want to build their own home at a fraction of the price of buying a home. It will take planning and sweat equity but that is easier to replenish than cash.

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Building Green

Green building is the practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings use resources energy, water, and materials while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment during the building's lifecycle, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal.

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Sustainable Design

Sustainable architecture is the design of sustainable buildings. Sustainable architecture attempts to reduce the collective environmental impacts during the production of building components, during the construction process, as well as during the lifecycle of the building (heating, electricity use, carpet cleaning etc) This design practice emphasizes efficiency of heating and cooling systems, alternative energy sources such as solar hot water, appropriate building siting, reused or recycled building materials, on-site power generation (solar technology, ground source heat pumps, wind power), rainwater harvesting for gardening and washing, and on-site waste management such as green roofs that filter and control stormwater runoff. Sustainable architects design with sustainable living in mind.

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