My OperaEco-homes
Friday, May 9, 2008 3:12:16 AM
Ecological homes reuse and recycle most waste and used materials that are available very close to the site/area. It encourages local handicraft or art and harvests rain water and reuses most water that the building consumes. It is a home that takes the least from earth’s natural resources to build.
Says, Harsha Sridhar, Chief Anchor - Design Cell, BCIL, “For example, a mud wall-based, thatch-roofed structure of a farmer is the most sustainable, for it uses the least. He does not transport any material from any big distance by trucks that consume diesel, which is another precious fossil fuel that hurts the planet’s resources. In the urban context, using bricks is ‘not friendly’ since it uses precious topsoil that takes 1200 years to form one inch of it, naturally! Bricks use energy at 400 deg C. And the energy used mostly comes from cutting forest wood or by using coal, both natural resources that are finite and therefore exhaustive or extractive.”
Says, Harsha Sridhar, Chief Anchor - Design Cell, BCIL, “For example, a mud wall-based, thatch-roofed structure of a farmer is the most sustainable, for it uses the least. He does not transport any material from any big distance by trucks that consume diesel, which is another precious fossil fuel that hurts the planet’s resources. In the urban context, using bricks is ‘not friendly’ since it uses precious topsoil that takes 1200 years to form one inch of it, naturally! Bricks use energy at 400 deg C. And the energy used mostly comes from cutting forest wood or by using coal, both natural resources that are finite and therefore exhaustive or extractive.”
