Habitação unifamiliar sustentável: a construção com terra como alternativa

Abstract

The paper presents a study on the search for sustainability in the field of architecture and shows the criteria to be taken into account in creating green projects. It also outlines the necessary planning for the project to achieve the required efficiency in buildings and shows some green materials and sustainable techniques that can be used in construction today. Paying attention to the viability of earth construction techniques, aiming in this way encourage the use of traditional methods and unlink them from the idea of building a "poor" or low quality. As a result, it presents a draft of upscale single-family housing in rammed earth, where they applied the concepts of sustainability. The proposal is to demonstrate that from concepts of bioclimatic architecture and environmental sustainability, coupled with the construction land, and applied to real estate projects, can contribute to reducing the degree of environmental degradation.