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|GREEN BOX, the sustainable Garden-House of the future, Construmat 2009, 20th to 25th April |  |
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|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)| |
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o GREEN BOX is the first modular Garden-House that is prefabricated, reusable, transportable, has an infinite life cycle, is bioclimatic, has zero energy consumption, anddoes not generate waste.
o 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.
o 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 VI”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.
[pic]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 isnearest to his conceptual architectural model of “Artificial Nature”.
 
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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. Thebuilding’s interior is completely diaphanous, and its architectural structure enables any kind of indoor compartmentalizing. 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, andregulates itself thermally through its bioclimatic 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.
 
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All of the building’s components have been designed in a modular way to be dry-assembled....