ECO-Home CONSTRUCTION

Eco-homes are built from environmentally friendly materials, available in natural, sustainable and more economical. Materials for these buildings can be made of clay and sand. When mixed with water and, usually, straw and other fibers, such as the mixture can be shaped boiled or adobe (clay blocks). Other materials that are commonly used are earth, wood, straw, rice husks, bamboo and stone. Many types of recycled materials in common use, including Urbanity (chunks of concrete foundations are used) and recycled glass.

Some of the more material precludes the use of the building as a result negative on the environment and health. These materials such as wood harvested illegally, semen Portland as a basic mix, paintings and other layers that emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and some plastics, especially polyvinyl chloride (PVC) which danger. As with the idea of ​​Eco-house is a dwelling house in environmentally friendly, here we divide it from the aspect of the material available in natural and energy-saving technologies.
Material with below:

• Adobe

Adobe is the oldest construction method that consists of a mixture of clay, sand and water. Sometimes pieces of straw or other fibers for added strength. The mixer then allowed to dry in the desired shape. Once dry sand and 35-40% 50-60% clay will increase the power of stones. New Mexico US Extension Service recommends mixing consists of no more pliant third, no less ½ and not more than 1/3 sand. Usually adobe formed into bricks that can be stacked to form a wall.

Sometimes adobe stable with little cement or asphalt emulsion to provide a water-resistant properties better. To protect the walls and reduce maintenance, adobe buildings have overhanging big and foundation are quite large. Adobe may be plastered with cob or lime to improve the appearance and protection. Adobe is widely used as an architecture in temperate regions of the desert. Besides easily accessible, adobe also protect the occupants from the afternoon heat and cold nights. Adobe has good thermal mass, which means it is difficult to send to hot adobe or cold.

Great Wall inhibiting heat from the sun and the air before warming to room temperature. After sunset, the walls were on transferring heat into the room. Planning adobe wall thickness greatly affect the temperature of the room temperature in extreme climates such as the desert. Depending on the material available, the roof can be assembled with a long use wall or metal to create a platform for launching adobe brick layer. Depending on the thickness of adobe bricks, the framework has been using a steel frame and a metal layer on top of the framework to allow mass even in the limit load of metal scattered adobe like cob and allowed to air dry suit. This method demonstrated using adobe mixture until it is absorbed by the cement to allow drying and prevent a large crack.

• Cob

Cob term used to describe systems with monolithic basic mixer building materials clay, sand and straw. Its construction does not use stone or command wall.Variant shape of the building "cob" has been used in many parts of the world for centuries. Cob into use in England and disappeared during World War I. poached one of the main techniques of the most simple and cheap, and can be prepared in various forms.