Sustainable BC Home Design in Mexico
Known as BC Home, This sustainable house style located at a privileged topographic situation, in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico was designed with energetic efficiency by Gilberto L. Rodríguez, GLR Arquitectos. The GLR Arquitectos‘ residence is composed of simple house style with pure geometric volumes. The green house style is also an exploration of new building materials, such as black granite, white uncovered concrete, and uncovered steel elements. The house style also consists of a green roof as a way to integrate the landscape of the Sierra Madre mountain assortment into the residence.Sustainable Home with black granite white concrete and steelexterior facade Sustainable Home Style in Mexicoexterior green house style in Nuevo Leon Mexicoexterior facade Sustainable Home designexterior facade BC Home style in Mexico by GLR Arquitectosexterior BC Home in Nuevo Leon Mexicoexterior BC Home gardenexterior BC Home cantilevered buildingexterior BC Home balcony facade buildingBC Home exterior facade style with swimming poolBC Home by GLR Arquitectos in Mexicointerior site BC Home swimming poolinterior BC Home view to house gardeninterior BC Home style staircase with skylightOn a sustainable style note, the BC Home was conceived as a sustainable entity since the project’s conception. A study on energetic efficiency, which analyzes the sun trajectory and the prevailing winds in varied seasons of the yr led the house to consist of a series of varied methods of isolation, like its double walls with poliisocianurate, an ecological insulator; double windows with low emissivity (Reduced-E) glass; methods of pluvial water harvesting and gray water therapy for irrigation, solar paddles for pool heating and backyard illumination, solar water heaters, hydronic heating methods to reduce the power consumption, south oriented skylights, as well as a landscape undertaking with native vegetation.
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