Friday, October 7, 2011

Planning a healthy home, comfortable and beautiful

Everyone will want to own a dream house that could meet the criteria as a healthy home, beautiful, comfortable. Here are 8 things that must be considered in the planning of a building.
  • Planning of Structure build 
The first thing that must be considered in building a home is how the structural design of the building. This is important, because the main function is to house as a shelter for residents from exposure to heat, weather. Therefore, the design structure of the house should be designed in such a way as to be able to withstand exposure to weather (hot sun, rainfall, flood waves, wind) and the vibrations caused by the earthquake.
For an architect must have been schools of several components that must be assumed in the imposition of structural design, among other things: dead load (weight of all structural components of buildings), live load (assuming the burden of building usage by human activity), loads of rain, wind loads, load snow (not applicable in this particular tropical country) and earthquake-resistant.
As a consequence due to a variety of loading on the building structure, the structure of the building began planning the foundation stage, Sloof, columns, walls, ring balk, beam, floor plates, roof truss to the roofing material must be carefully calculated and can meet the requirements based on established standards in building structures.
You who want to plan a house, then it needs to be underlined that the installation of structural components must be examined carefully. Do you hesitate to ask the contractor about the standards they use, because you and your family who will occupy the house.
  • Comparison of coefficient of building land with an area of ​​the park  
The second thing is to plan a healthy home must meet the ideal proportion between land awoke with park land. For that existing rules on Coefficient Base Building. This is because a garden filled with plants will be able to produce oxygen, absorb CO2 and to function as filters for the potential adverse environment, especially air pollution.
Park will serve as the local climate modifier, especially for houses located in urban areas are a lot of air pollution. In this case, the numbers could be said to be ideal 60:40 ratio between land area awoke to the area of ​​the park. With these comparative figures, there are quite a lot of plants that can serve as filters for pollutants and producing oxygen. Even so, of course, seems rather difficult to reach that number, especially for homes in urban areas.
Solutions that can be taken is to maximize the points of plants in areas that will be a wind trajectory lines or dots penghawaan circulation of house building. Way that can be taken apart it is a combination of garden and swimming actively. With a waterfall or pond so that water flowing move, then the ability to filter dust particles from the park will be a maximum.
  • Lighting in the home
 Lighting elements will affect the health and comfort of residents. However we are fortunate to live a rich tropical sunshine all year round. In addition to sunlight as a source of vitamin D, sunlight can also serve to kill some types of fungi and bacteria is negative. Should all the spaces in the house should get enough sun exposure to prevent excessive moisture in the room, because it will lead to negative growth of fungi or bacteria that damage the health of residents.
The window is one component of building a house that is used where the entry of light into the house. Window glass can also be used void in space that does not allow the windows installed, for example because it is limited by the walls of your neighbor's house. Another way as the entry of light into the home is by using glass or tile roofing material usage carpot Polycarbonate on the roof of your home. The use of bulkhead walls made ​​of glass or glass block can also be categorized as a component of the lighting, as well as one of the architectural ornaments that are widely applied in healthy homes.
The most important thing is the placement of the lighting points are to be completely appropriate in order to provide access to natural light is an ideal entry and evenly in the rooms of the house. If not, then you're forced to use artificial lighting that uses light, either incandescent or compact fluorescent lighting. However, somehow the sun's light is much better because in addition to providing several advantages above, you also contribute to energy-efficient movement.
  • Circulation of air in the house 
Circulation of air in a building must be taken into account in order to qualify the ideal air circulation. Humans as residents require the supply of fresh air and clean enough to be able to act with good. You can imagine if you were in a closed room without ventilation air, must have seemed stuffy, oppressive and uncomfortable is not it? However also serve as air vents for air circulation to and from air exchange into the home. To that end, the size of air vents in the home building should be made in proportion so as to drain the fresh air is needed into the room.
Form of ventilation is most commonly used in homes is a window that can be opened wide in the daytime. Then there is also a model bovenlis window, which is double glass window with a gap between them that allows the exchange of air is usually in place on top and is generally installed in the bathroom or toilet. There is also a kind of window glass "Nako" like a lattice window, once its use had become a trend in society. In addition to the above examples form windows, air vents can also be made lattice-shaped hole in the wall of the building. The method for making air ventilation holes also vary by making a hole wall, with lattice frame, or use a roster of wood, concrete, ceramics and even aluminum.   
The placement of the points where the air vents can be done based on the needs and the most dominant wind direction at the location of your home. Also the air circulation inside the house can be caused by differences in temperature between sun-exposed areas with a protected section, for example, the lush trees in your backyard will also influences the process of air circulation in your home. Encourage the flow of air circulation should be directed to the spaces that are often used so that the natural process can be efficient.
The best method of designing a natural ventilation system is by the method of cross ventilation, where air circulation is arranged in such a way that can flow from one point of the air vents toward the other point of the air vents, and vice versa. Thus the air circulation will not be 'stuck' in the house, which led to the house feels stuffy and hot. Another way that can also be done with a garden in the house premises openings, which in addition to functioning as air vents can also be a source of natural lighting for your home.
If the method of use is still lacking adequate passive ventilation, the ventilation methods can be used actively by making a hole blower who actively (with the help of electric power to drive the blower fan) will suck the air out of the room, to be forced to exchange with fresh air more than outside through the ventilation holes.
However, if the conditions in your house really does not allow for natural air circulation, you must use artificial air circulation system such as Air Conditioning (AC) as is widely done in the cities, because there's air quality has been less comfortable if presented is directly due to excessive air pollution.

To be continued....  

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