Armando Iachini: New Tendencies in Sustainable Architecture
Recently, this tendency of working under the parameter of sustainable architecture , also known as green architecture or eco-architecture has grown significantly . Its main aim is to generate all the comfort necessary to live and work under a pleasant environment but minimizing the impact of the buildings to the environment. The construction projects that are applied nowadays are oriented at taking advantage the best way as possible of the resources, in order to reduce working costs as well as to diminish the incidence generated due to mankind activities to the environment . The construction world has given importance to buildings that have water-recycling systems, an element that reduces liquid consumption and maximizes its efficient use by preserving this vital natural resource. The most important element to save water in a household is the use of new technologies that recycle water and that use rainwater . It is estimated that a person uses at least...