House Among The Trees

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D e s i g n o f S i n g u l a r B u i l d i n g S k i n s

house among pine trees

authors: Concepcion Prats Ortuño

Amelie JasperJosé M. Moyano

advisor:Antonio Galiano Garrigós

Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectonicas

Univesidad de Alicante

©2012

house among the trees

Introduction: “Design a Healthy Home”

Location

Plot General Plan

Elevations

Ground Floor

First Floor Second Floor

Sections

Materials

Details

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Design of Singular Building Skins

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You know when you have entered a healthy home. Regardless of the period and style, there is a sense of harmony and purity that nourishes both body and soul. Over time, you may also notice that you breathe more easily, feel more content, and begin each day with height-ened energy and enthusiasm.

One of the great ironies of the twenti-eth century is that the very technologies intended to enhance our well-being have often undermined our health:

- Modern heating and cooling systems entice us with promises of temperature-perfect rooms, yet colds and allergies plague us

- Chemical additives permit more durable paints, fabrics, wood, and construction materials, yet they fill the air with toxic fumes

A healthy home may resemble the eco-friendly houses that evolved as part of the popular green architecture move-ment of the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing from ancient building techniques, these homes are constructed of earth, clay, straw, or steel-reinforced concrete forms. Solar-powered and naturally cooled, they provide modern comforts without drain-ing resources.

However, you don’t need to set up housekeeping in a monolithic dome or an earth-sheltered dwelling to live in harmony with nature. Even the most traditional home, which may have been built long before the rise in environmen-tal consciousness, can be adapted to incorporate the key principles of healthy design.

- Mass-produced synthetics and com-posite construction materials appear to save money, yet their ingredients trouble us with ailments ranging from mild head-aches to severe depression.

Ultimately, there’s something unsatisfy-ing about wrinkle-proof fabrics and lab-oratory-created walls and floors. Lack-ing the warmth and patina of materials drawn from nature, they sap our spirits in ways that are subtle yet profound.

What Is A Healthy Home?

The healthy home nurtures those who dwell inside and also protects the world beyond its walls. Designed with sensi-tivity for the environment, it is energy-efficient, economical, sustainable, and non-polluting.

Design a Healthy HomeLay the foundation for a healthy home that nourishes your body and soul

Healthy Home Checklist

Healthy For the Body

• Free your home from toxins• Arrange furnishings and storage for comfort and ease• Get rid of bulky, dust-collecting cushions• Vent moisture from damp rooms• Create special places for exercise and relaxation• Healthy For the Psyche

Healthy For the Psyche

• Clear away clutter• Let in the sun• Choose mood-enhancing colors• Grow fragrant herbs• Fill rooms with soothing sounds

Healthy For the Soul

• Provide quiet places for reflection• Replace throwaways with keepsakes• Strive for simplicity and moderation• Bring nature indoors• Honor the environment

Portions of this article are adapted from The Healthy Home, a home design book by Jackie Craven, Rockport Publishers

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House Among Pine Trees

The plot chosen is located in a recently urbanized area call Lloma Bada, a Pe-trer’s suburb. The house is vhon Cerdeña St., isolated in a block still undeveloped.

The position is particularly privileged because it is in the urbanized area boundary, very close to the slopes of the mountain formation east of Petra. An area full of native vegetation, especially pines.

Location

Lloma Bada in Petreraereal view

Lloma Bada in Petrer

chosen plot

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north view


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Plot General Plan

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A: House a three floor building in the midle of the plot among the trees holds the rooms and services which make the house

B: Garage located right next to the street this construction has the minimun area needed to place the car, and is connected to the house by a path

C: Pavillon this simple construction in the highest side of the plot provides the users a out-door place for exterior activities when wheater is appropriate

Besides the house main building (A) the design includes a garage (B) right next to the street and comunicated with the house through a simple path which goes along among the pines, so you don’t enter the house directly from the street but you feel like geting inside the nature first.

Another path make is way in the back side of the house taking you to a small pavillon conceived as a “place for exercise and relaxation”. A balcony on the slope high enough to be a privileged viewpoint.

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Elevations

North Façade East Façade

The north façade, is filled with windows giving a continuous visual comunication with the trees in the front side of the house. Nevertheless the rest of the façades have no windows to offset the energetic lost effect of the big amount of glass in the north side.


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General Pespective of the Plot

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Ground Floor

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The ground foor contains the common spaces for every daily activity, such as the kitchen, living room and dinning room all of them in only undivided space. Containing the right space for “arrange furnishings and storage for comfort and ease”. There is also a small toilet next to the entrance.

1 Kitchen

2 Dinning Room

3 Living Room

4 Toilet

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First Floor

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The bedroom is located in the first floor and it’s conected visualy with the rest of the house since it has no wall on the east side. Next to the bedroom the is a complete bathroom with nature ventilation and ilumination (day light) provide by a window in the north façade.

5 Bedroom

6 Bathroom

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Second Floor

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In the second floor there is a working place, visualy conected to the interior of the house by living one side opened, the same as the bedroom.

And in the other side of the building, over the bathroom there is a close room for placing the instalations and machin-ery for air conditioner, heating and humidity control. Everything in one isolated room, which acces is a small discret door accesible with a stepladder.

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Sections

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Section AA’

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According to the intentions of the project the finishing materials have been chossen to intensify the feel of nature spaces. So the façades have been finish with cedar boards, and in the interior the wall oposite to the windows is completly made with gabions, bringing this way natural materils to the interior too.

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Interior House Perspective

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Details

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Detail 1

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1 GravelPlastic waterproof layer15 mm plywood70 mm (min) glass-wool thermalInsulation to falls24 mm plywood30 mm thermal insulation105/200 mm laminated pine beam45/45 mm battens12.5 mm plasterboard

50 mm cypress frame with double glazing: 2 x 6 mm toughened glass+ 6 mm cavity

120/120 mm laminated pine column


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Detail 2

120/120 mm laminated pine column

fixed double glazing: 2 x 6 mm toughened glass + 12 mm cavity

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12 mm birch parquet12 + 28 plywood105/200 mm lam. pinejoists45/45 mm battens12.5 mm plasterboard

10 mm cedar boarding, burned and impregnated20 mm rigid-foam insulationplastic waterproof layer115/1250 mm lam. pine unit

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Detail 3

120/120 mm laminated pine columnfixed double glazing: 2 x 6 mm toughened glass + 12 mm cavity

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cedar boarding, impregnatedon waterproof layer150 mm reinforced concrete105 mm polyurethane insulation9 + 6 mm plywood

12 mm birch parquet12 + 28 mm plywood45/45 mm pine battens and90/90 mm pine bearers250 mm concrete floor slab


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Detail 4

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cedar boarding, impregnatedon waterproof layer200 mm reinforced concrete75 mm polyurethane insulation180 mm gabion stones

stainless steel water grillageover draining gravel

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Detail 5

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draining gravelwaterproof layer200 mm reinforced concrete180 mm gabion stones

12 mm birch parquet12 + 28 mm plywood45/45 mm pine battens and90/90 mm pine bearers250 mm concrete floor slab

draining gravelstudded draining layersmall size gravelwater collector Ø 20 mm

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