Green Homes Innovation & Design
What is a Green Home?
As an architect I can easily describe a Green Home in an architectural definition, that is a home building that uses scientific and innovative design to be energy efficient and sustainable. LEED(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for Homes defines it as residential building that is healthy, comfortable, durable, energy efficient and environmentally responsible.
Athens,Greece
Haute Écologie: A tony residence near Athens combines glitz and green
designed by U.S. based pldp architectsJune 2009
By David Sokol
Pleasant Hill, Maine,U.S.A.
Has received LEED for Homes Silver Certification.
The Green home is located in a reclaimed sand pit which has limit the impact to zone and excavation. It has maintained the surrounding vegetation and trees and is landscaped with native plants which minimized water use...
Project size: 2,250 sq. ft.
Project cost: $625,000
California,U.S.A.
Carsten Crossing Oakgrove Model in Rocklin California
by Grupe Company
Project Size: 2,543 sq. ft. (4-bedroom)Site Cost: $128,000 per lot
Construction Cost: $70 per sq. ft.
Leed Certification: Certified
Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water
"No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other."- Frank Lloyd Wright (Source: Architects and Architecture Quotes)
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