Someone's Trash became treasure for making this Sustainable Home.
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The Canaan is designed as an extension to the natural environment. It was ensured that all the material and construction techniques were eco-friendly, using bamboo and 90% of recycled materials for the entire building process, keeping the carbon footprint at a minimum. It is an extraordinary prototype of sustainable building, which fits harmoniously into the surrounding environment, which is inspired by traditional architecture generating architectural effects of high aesthetic level.
The list of recycled materials used includes bricks, cartwheels, doors, beer bottles, timber, Mangalore tiles, GI pipe, sourced from a demolition site. The use of cement is minimal as it possesses high embodied energy.
These ecological techniques reduce the impact of the current construction industry, which generates high levels of carbon emissions and water pollution, in addition to amounts of waste in landfills and in the environment. This is based on If and Only if this waste can be turned into a Living. Most of the construction materials are exploited, which are to be only replaced by materials that require more energy and high carbon emmissions. This is about solving such practices by collecting and re-using such materials along with renewable resources.
The three-storey house is situated on sloped land and the construction is planned to adapt to the site features, instead of trying to level the terrain. By retaining existing trees and building the home around one. There is a big mahogany right in the middle of the house, which is eventually a part of the home today.
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