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Firstly it is necessary to consult
who wishes to live in before starting to build or restore
a house made to measure of man.
Generally people don't want houses too high or too large,
neither too distant nor too close, but such to be able to
communicate an open space cosiness feeling at the same time:
a house included in a sphere where it is possible to join,
to socialize, and to work however keeping their own privacy
so that people can lead an harmonious and sensible life style.
On the contrary, it is obvious how the modern city development
is a failure: a wild exploitation of the territory which determines
poor quality life style, large amounts of heat and fumes coming
from the vehicles exhausts and from the heating systems, the
bad ground waterproofing.
All of this affects both the eco-system and the psychophysical
well being of those who were born in that area or by choice,
for need or for work have to live there.
So, planning one's life, following an ecological criteria,
became not just a simple choice but also a necessity, and
this is the reason why over the last twenty years the ecological
conscience expanded and the environmental theme became so
popular.
It is important, though, to point out that when we use the
terms like ecology and bio-architecture, often used inappropriately,
we refer to a concept that: mainly does not contradict the
technology, it does not mean a generalized "well-being"
and in keeping with the Nature's rules; by such terms we do
not want embrace any demagogic creed nor any fanaticism.
More simply we refer to the search of a new delicate balance
which helps the human being of this early century to still
live in a society made to measure for him which won't look
like one of the cities in "Blade- Runner"and at
the same time won't seek comfort in an anachronistic and utopian
research of the Arcadia: a false myth well known.
"Building Resources"Ò (trade mark of Ges
Ter of Mauro Egizi s.a.s.) it's a team of technical consultants
and artisan companies which wants to improve the health, the
comfort and the design qualifications, through a new dimension
and a new approach with the way of building or restoring.
The group of work was born by a twenty-year experience of
building private houses, residential dwellings or holiday
houses. Building ResourcesÒ will try to give its support
for the improvement of your daily environment: the private
space in your home, the keeper of your affections, the place
where each person can express one's personality as best as
one can; nest, shelter or anything else means home space.
The designed space will be done following the fundamental
rules that respect the physiological, psychological and social
needs that very often are forgotten.
It will have to be free of any unnatural artfulness, which
is the cause of different kind and grade of pathologies.
The house is a primary need, an undeniable requirement, like
clothes
it contributes to create one's identity, one's peculiarity
and it expresses it.
A house is the extent in the space of our body and our personality.
A house is the extent in the space of our psyche and the soul,
the memories and the affections container.
The house protects us, it shelters us and it guards us, but
it also talks about us, it tells our passions, our cultural
choices, and it may also express our economical standing,
and rank.
Thanks to his environment and his experiences related to his
senses (auditive, vision, tactile or any other sense related
to the well-being or uneasiness) the human being shaped the
new material extensions of his own space, that he absorbed
along with his territory and then he established all those
limits that should create the "territory" such as
the invisible and visible, the crossing and the impassable,
the personal and the social, the public and the personal.
The configuration of the anthropological landscape, consisting
of hamlets, towns, cities and metropolis combined with country
sides, rivers, hills, wood lands, follows a general plan that
was given time after time by the town planning technicians
who interpreted the common imaginary and the social-economical
demands that however changes in the long run.
This is valid as well for the prearrangement of the interiors
and the exteriors of our dwellings.
There is a room for any physiological function: for the nourishment,
for the hygienic care, for the relax, for light activities
and social relationships.
It is well known that some parts of a house have a characteristic
symbolic meaning: like every one knows there are some taboo
which regulate the access to the various rooms (i.e.: the
parents bedroom, the bathroom, the studio….)
This could confirm the assumption about the supposed human
disposition to the territoriality, similar to the one of the
social animals.
The houses we build have to be compared to our territory,
where the physical-personal space can be extended with no
limits.
It is like if every individual owes around his own body a
sort of an imaginary space bubble by many different dimensions.
A transparent covering that wraps our selves and defines the
physiological boundaries of our body: a sort of a small cushion
which preserves us, protects us and defends us from others
eventual or invasions.
All of this compromises that the interior space will refer
to a project study in order to optimize the interpersonal
relationships, either between the people and the furnishings
and the subdivision of the space.
This will be possible if one takes into consideration the
shapes, the dimensions and the furniture arrangement that
very often represents a compulsion to the expression of our
behaviours.
In order to make the most of the potentialities "our"
house will combine in the best way the building material with
the building technologies.
From the beginning of the project we will take into consideration
and analyze the ground in order to verify any record of geological
weathering or magnetic disturbances, so to orient the building
in respect to the terrestrial magnetism and the sun route.
If we look at a house that was built before 1940 we generally
find a building that was constructed taking into consideration
the natural elements.
The ancients used to spend long time studying the right place
to build, nothing was chosen at random.
We can say that houses used to work well, they used to be
functional.
In the coldest rooms such as the cellar, the loft or the storage
wine and food used to be well kept. Where it was less cold
they use to put the bedrooms.
Since it was much more comfortable and easier having the fire
wood and water handy, the kitchen with a large open fire place
used to be the first room as soon as you used to come in the
house.
Building "on hard" was meant taking advantage of
the outcrops of rocks in the ground and start raising the
supporting walls on top of them.
The post-economic boom greed of building makes some of our
clients still wonder: is it possible to have a terrace? Just
when we are about to restore a house in the countryside that
has five hectares of land on the top of the hill and a gorgeous
and overwhelming view. "Our" house should mirror
the context and the environment where is located, it should
aim to satisfy the needs of those who will live it in, it
should locate eventual new alternative energetic sources like
the solar energy, and finally it should re-established the
relationship between Nature- human being- Architecture pointing
out the attention to two fundamental aspects: the ergonomic
and the morphologic ones.
As far as concerns the ergonomic aspect it refers to all that
regards the nowadays pathologies.
In fact there are some pathologies deriving from the human
kind behaviours and alterations that he made on the environment
(such as cardiovascular illnesses, tumours, mental and neurological
illnesses) that can be treated only through the study of the
relation of the human being with the environment.
The morphological environment pays attention instead to the
dichotomy between the structural and constructive technologies
and the energetic, bioclimatic and of instalments one, in
order to achieve an alternative technology that will put them
all together.
In fact it is not possible to consider the first as a technology
that needs to be applied to the second, for the purpose of
correcting the climatic and ecological inaccuracies.
Building ResourcesÒ will operate in such a way that
the energetic technology will become part of the constructive
one, which means that it will join the shape determination,
of the architecture configuration, without forgetting to take
into consideration the antique techniques of environmental
control used along with the most sophisticated contemporary
technologies.
A kind of architecture that reflects all these aspects and
that it must be conceived and perceived as a "living
system", as part of the Nature.
Buildings should become part of the natural energies flow
without disturbing them, they should be ecologically built,
that is with low input or output of energy, they should give
a positive impulse to the senses of smell and touch, etc.
All of this consideration stimulated our research that is
defined in the development of the "Building Resources
Ò" Staff.
We have located some needs and problems in the current way
of living-in and we reckoned to give a solution to each of
them with introduction of innovative technologies and a new
project thinking which respects the main points of the ecological
way of building.
Therefore we are sure that it will be interesting to illustrate
in chapters the solutions for the different identified needs.
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