About heat insulation of a residence and a natural material

• 2012.07.29

The interior of a room of a greenfingers eco-apartment is supposed to be built with a natural material. 

And thermally insulated.
According to Eco-ya Baobab 's Mr. Tomohira Yamada

In order to live to Eco, a good quality of heat insulation of a house will be necessary.

Becoming strict about heat insulation is related to sick house syndorome which I wrote before.
If there is no interior of a room for a natural material so that indoor airtightness may not be exposed to a chemical substance over a good part and a long period of time, it will be said that it is useless.

We had consultation about interior of a room of being for a natural material had been held also at the major house maker M home in early stages of the apartment project.

The answer which came back is that are a designer's mansion?, there is the recognition.

Most major house makers were not wanting whether to consider whether indoor chemical substance exposure is considered and such recognition. 

The origin of common sense and craftsmanship thinks that it became good study about where it is.

Interior adhering to natural materials, such as a pure cedar plate flooring and a mortar wall.
If the interior of a room is a natural material, insulation efficiency is improved unreservedly.

About a natural material and heat insulation, we publish again.

Nobuaki

Consideration about sick house syndrome

• 2012.07.27

There were many things considered when building and managing an apartment and going.
When we let the place where people live, the room could not be for truly not considering the problem about safety, like sick house syndrome.
A duty of enforced ventilation is imposed upon the present residence for 24 hours.
It is because condition, such as sick house syndrome and a chemical sensitivity, may be caused if it does not ventilate compulsorily.
And the adhesives and new synthetic building materials in which the chemical substance is used for wallpaper or the plywood for construction are the cause.
Now, the chemical substance regulated has only several kinds.
It is because the construction itself may become impossible if all are regulated.
Then, it is 24-hour enforced ventilation.

The present age is surrounded by various chemical substances, such as radiation of subject, the housebuilding syndrome of exhaust gas or an office, and these days, and lives only on living ordinarily.
However it may take care, some chemical substances will be taken into the inside of the body, and it will live.
It will be exposed to a chemical substance. Furthermore, is it OK in the house we went home?


The original reason why we ask Eco-ya BAOBAB to build our apartment is
their research and practice is deep about sickhouse-syndorome.
They study how to realize a really safety house, also directed in the production of a house for a chemical sensitivity person.

If there may be few people who are conscious of whether it is safety to a chemical substance in letting an apartment,
When if our rent was considered, sick house syndrome became an item which must be considered.

About sick house syndorome (jump to Wikipedia)


Nobuaki

greenfingers eco-apartment project finally starts!

2012.07.17

The eco-apartment project with a kitchen garden which kayagreen sends to you.
It began to move still more.
Although it is still a stage of a plan view now, it is a healthy apartment plan for Eco who took in the passive design about interior using lots of Japan cedar from Hyogo(our local).
A collaborative project with Eco-Ya-baobab.
It is cool in summer, warm in winter and is an energy-saving eco-apartment which hardly requires the electric bill of air conditioning.

We slowly reveal details and goes.

by Nobuaki

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Main  feature of greenfingers eco-apartment 

1. Use local woods, which realizes local supply and local consumption

2. Proposal  a passive design which means It does not depends Air conditioning more than needed

3. Completely free from sick house syndrome, there are full of delicious air, totally healthy,safety  environments.

4. Planning full of green such as a green parking, home vegetable garden, a common space will be mini-agroforestry.

5. The apartment has  7 households. Each household has 2 bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and a toilet, a balcony and of course a vegitable garden in front of an apartment.