Examples of free plans for green homes and homes
And if we had a chance to see the house plans and technical proposals that great architects and law firms architecture contributed individually to a project.
All key features in PDF and online of the different house plans that formed the remodeling of an area devastated by inclement weather.
Here comes an initiative by the famous Brad Pitt to rebuild a New Orleans neighborhood destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, which contacted architects like Frank Gehry, among many, to contribute their grain of sand to the victims.
The idea, to provide for each office a house plan design have some "Ideal" ecological characteristics for its inhabitants and aspects of resilience in its architecture to prevent future catastrophes in the face of constant climatic changes that are revolutionizing the appearance and nature of the area as well as the types of ecosystems and habitats of the inhabitants of the area.
A example of elevation plan of a facade The section of the McDonough + Partners study that we can find would be:
It is now, after several years after the disaster, when the project reaches its splendor and where you can really check and see if the different types of green house plans contributed by architects who have had a notable impact on the area.
In addition, as a characteristic of the purpose, we can see the online plan in PDF of each home. 27 project proposals from which we can draw many conclusions; see the techniques used, the construction systems, understand how to design the plan of a sustainable house, how to present the plans of a project … etc.
In short, learn to design homes more consistently for the benefit of ecological houses that respond to a better behavior in the face of climatic changes and even, with different techniques, protect ourselves as much as possible against hurricanes …
Examples of house plans
Several architects from New Orleans and around the world were selected based on their exceptional reputations and their knowledge of green homes and covered in bioclimatic designs with the following characteristics:
- Familiarity and interest in sustainability attending to your projects
- The experience with residential and multifamily properties with ecological designs and that respond to an environmental coherence
- Low budget project specialists
- Experience in dealing with structures that have to successfully address environments with natural disasters and potential adversities of magnitude.
The project distinguishes between two types of houses according to their graphic representation; single family homes defined by only the ground floor and "multi-family" that encompasses the latter with the plane characteristic in the duplex house.
Duplex house plans
- From the BILD studio (In New Orleans) - Access document HERE.
- From the Billes architect groups (In New Orleans) - Access document HERE.
- From William McDonough + Partners (Charlottesville) - Access document HERE. Example of the modular home:
- With different international awards behind him for design houses literally "everything." The architecture studio BNIM (Kansas City) offers us even views of the 3D plans - The access document HERE. Example of a facade section in 3D:
- From Graft (In Berlin, Germany) - We can access the planning from here. (Recommended)
- From the architecture office in Hitoshi Abe (Sendai, Japan) - The document with plans in PDF access HERE. Facade elevation examples:
- From Building Studio (In New Orleans) - Los architectural plans we can find them HERE.
- From the Constructs professional office (Located in Gana) - The access document HERE.
- From the Elemental architects (Santiago, Chile) - The document with the plan access HERE.
- From one of the most famous architecture and urban planning firms in the world Gehry and Partners (Los Angeles) - The access document HERE.
- From the MVRDV architects (From Rotterdam) - The architectural plans can be found HERE.
- From the Pugh + Scarpa studio (Santa Monica) - Access document HERE.
- From Ray Kappe (Berkley) - Access document HERE.
- Wagonner and Ball (New Orleans) - Access document HERE.
Single-family home plans
Let us remember that single family homes they are assigned only to housing projects with an example of the ground floor plan in section.
- Pugh and Scarpa (Santa Monica) - Access document HERE.
- From the Billes Architecture studio (New Orleans) - The access document HERE.
- From the office of Adjaye Associates (Based in London) - The access document HERE.
- Concordia (New Orleans) - Access document HERE.
- Constructs (Accra, Ghana) - Access document HERE.
- Eskew + Dumez + Ripple (New Orleans) - Access document HERE.
- From the BNIM architects (Kansas City) - Access PDF document HERE.
- From the famous Morphosis Architectural Studio (Santa Monica) - Access document HERE.
- MVRDV (Rotterdam) - Access to the characteristics of the plans HERE.
- Shigeru Ban Architects (Tokyo, Japan) - Access document HERE.
- Trahan Architects (Baton Rouge) - Access document HERE.
From HERE we can go directly to the reference page and the project as a whole where different photographs and images of the executed and finished houses are also shown. Also from HERE we can see photographs of the houses already built (It's a google search). Although the structures or skeleton of the houses are made of concrete, the rest is made of wood, so from the article on building with wood we can learn more about it.
Why live in an ecological house
We want to leave a video of interest where it is a clear example of how a home can make the most of both the environment to achieve great savings in energy consumption, being linked to criteria of choice in quality materials to favor insulation and The use of renewable or alternative energies makes unplugging from the general network and having an ecological home possible.
How to make house plans
To complete the article and delve into the 2D and 3D dimensional lines and plots for design houses online and be able to create our own home, on the Internet we can find many applications to make free and online house plans.
There are various online tools that you can easily find on the web, but in our opinion we should know at least some in particular and that will help us to What make a plan in an easy and fast way without wasting too much time.
It must be remembered that it will be essential to have an initial sketch with the spaces more or less determined in measurements and location of wet areas, common areas or rest areas, in order to work in a coherent way with the programs. Many of them have 3D furniture to give our work more realism …
Autodesk Home Styler
One of the most famous and with excellent qualities as well as a great bookstore. East program works online And for free, you can create each and every one of the environments of your house or remodel certain spaces of the house.
It has equipment to be able to see how the changes are being made, it is simple to use. Application belongs to the popular software developer for engineering design and architecture What Autocad and Revit, Autodesk…. To access the Autodesk Home Styler from here.
Planner 5D
With a very large community. If you find that they look good from the floor plan or landscape view, then this online application of plans It is for you, you only have to create the spaces of your home such as the living room, dining room, kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and then size them from any of the sides of that room, then choose the furniture that you bring in your library. Access to Planner 5D… HERE.
Sketchup
The acquaintance Sketchup. It has a Pro version, but with the basic one we can enter the 2D and 3D home design or see its sections…. HERE.
Roomstyler
Specialized in interior plans and its design. With a good community that provides knowledge and different prototypes. It is really a good tool for the interior design, rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms … etc. To access Roomstyler from here. and Another for its speed when we need it in the Roomle…. HERE.
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