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Nzeb and passive house

Nzeb and Passivhaus standards

WHAT EXACTLY NZEB BUILDINGS ARE? Net Zero Energy Building (NZEB) and Passive House (or Passivhaus) are both energy-efficient building standards, but they have different focuses and goals.  In this article we analyse some of the main differences. Energy balance: NZEB aims to achieve a net-zero energy balance, meaning the building produces

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Passivhaus in Sicily

Passivhaus in Sicily

How to build a passivhaus in Sicily? A few days ago, from a conversation with an architect colleague, the little-treated problem of overheating of buildings in general emerged and how this is a problem that also affects passivhaus built in Sicily and, in general, in locations with a warm climate

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casa passiva, passive house

Passive house – A “modern” requirement

Passivhaus – A “modern” requirement The passive house (originally named ‘PassivHaus‘ in German) is a house, or building, capable of covering most of its energy needs by harnessing solar contributions (for heating) and shading elements (for cooling). This, combined with mechanical ventilation systems with heat recovery, high-performance thermal windows, and

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building less

Building less is a sustainable future

This is the global screening at 14.33 of today the 26th of October 2020. The population increased today is 66,713,388. The actualised global population is 7.8 billion. We produced this year 65.2 million cars and spent today 2.8 billion dollars on military equipment. Also, only for today, 4.6 million hectares

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Hand with Reflecting Sphere Escher

Living, Building, Place, Space

Conversation around Heidegger and the meaning of building places We architects design and construct buildings designed to live in. Looking for the meaning of the word “living” a few days ago, I happened to read an in-depth analysis of an essay by Heidegger (Building, living, thinking) published by Giuliano Antonello

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Post-covid cities

How Covid-19 could change our cities

There is an ongoing process of dichotomizing the “dream concept” of the cities of the future (post-Covid cities). We have made cities grow dramatically to encourage the concentration of labour by bringing the worker ‘closer’ to the place of production. The main cities have still a medieval concentric organization of

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albo degli architetti di catania

bureau69 architects è uno studio di architettura indipendente in Sicilia gestito da Max Strano, architetto siciliano iscritto all’albo degli architetti di Catania  (OAPPCCT) e RIBA Chartered Architect nel Regno Unito, con oltre 20 anni di esperienza professionale e un’ampia gamma di progetti di architettura e interior design completati in Italia ed all’estero. 

Offriamo servizi di progettazione architettonica, interior design e direzione lavori, incluso la presentazione delle pratiche urbanistiche, sia per nuove costruzioni che per ristrutturazioni. Se hai un progetto di cui discutere invia un messaggio WhatsApp o attraverso il social per un contatto rapido, oppure segui il link sottostante per lasciare alcune informazioni in un modulo. 

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