New Sustainable interior design: a cross vision between Ethic and Aesthetic.

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We all have some idea about what interior design is. It is about creating a look for the interior of a building. It’s about being stylish. In either a contemporary, traditional, ethnic or minimal way, we, the interior design people, try to create a theme for a house or room by our choice of furniture, fabrics, accessories, wall coverings and flooring. This said is assumable that Interior design is a field of design that deals primarily with the aesthete. Namely, in making choices about what is beautiful and what is ugly, about what ‘works’ visually and what doesn’t.

Isn’t it? well, it shouldn’t.

Sustainable design has emerged as a guiding paradigm in the creation of a new kind of built environment: one that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Leading our project’s approach towards being greener and more conscious is a must and to effectively achieving successful results, we need to empower a cross vision of sustainability, a new idea that will lead us into a new and more interesting path, one that will consider not just “what” to use to be sustainable, as this will inevitabily lead to creating a possibly super environmentally friendly realization without satisfying one the main principle of sustainability i.e the satisfaction of the need of the present, but especially “how” and “where” to use sustainable solutions. The watch words of a truly successful interior design should be ‘cool’ ‘contemporary’ ‘stylish’‘now” and ‘sustainable’ ‘recycled’ ‘non-toxic’ , “tomorrow”..

Green interior design is about analyzing all aspects of a building’s interior – it’s parts and processes – to find ways to save energy and water, to find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to make the interior free of toxic chemicals and to use materials that are the most environmentally friendly while carefully laying out, furnish and combining new and updated solutions that comes from a more sustainable aware design world of today.

Research and a careful selection of both companies and partners with the same philosophy will lead to a greater and more accurate palette of products and finishes that can fulfill the need of a true sustainability being both pleasant for the eye and fulfill our need to deliver a better world to our children.

as usual,moderation, not extremism, is the keyword.

Modular Sustainability

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A++ is working in tight collaboration with Seasif SUN-TEC and its associates Luxferov and Nuovo Corso, to join expertise’s, operational and engineering’s knowledge, to design and develop exceptional self-sufficient residential units that respond effectively to the more and more important demand for a fully sustainable and self sufficient dwell, in the housing scenario.
The new housing unit will host an innovative, light weight and extremely sturdy fiberglass, kevlar and resins’ compound structure, especially extruded to both be used as beams and pillars of the building and to house different typology of insulating packs, (Rockwooll or basal fibre) chosen with referral to the climate zones, in order to avoid temperature changes and provide more protection against humidity to the house.
An aluminum structure is than anchored to the building exteriors face, supporting extruded porcelain stoneware slabs that compose the facade and creating a few centimeter gap between the insulating packet and the external wall.
Extruded porcelain stoneware becomes a totally new material that brings to the project the joint advantages of an exclusive extrusion-based technology, such as low thickness, mechanical resistance and structure elasticity, with the typical benefits of porcelain stoneware, such as aesthetics, water-proofing and durability.

The building structure is then covered with a roof that integrates a new typology of solar panel that serves both to produce electrical energy and thermal energy to fulfill the house needs in terms of energy consumption, heating and cooling.
The new panels are built by mounting mono-cristalline solar cells directly into extruded porcelain stoneware which is being provided with small holes in its thickness where a coolant liquid is injected. The coolant injected into the panels exchange its thermal energy with the cells, keeping them cooler and thus maintaining a higher level of efficiency for energy production. The so heated liquid is then covered to an indirect heat exchanger, which leads to the production of hot water, which is then used directly for thermo-sanitary uses, or for heating and cooling with an addition of a heat pump.
This house of the future will boast many advantages such as a LEED PLATINUM certification
the use of Environmentally-recyclable materials to 80%, Summer natural ventilation
Natural cooling and the base structure will be sold inclusive of structure + finishes and all
plants such as air-water heat pump, electric kettle with hot water storage, forced air exchange with heat recovery, photovoltaic thermal plant, heating and cooling, electrical, plumbing and sanitary system.

Its production costs will not directly place burdens on the client’s pocket since the type of construction generates financial benefits to the end user that can use them as an immediate recovery of the money spent for the purchase of the property.

stay tuned for more on this matter.

Seasif
Luxferov
Nuovocorso

A++’s New website: an innovative approach to architecture and design

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Cross architecture

A++ new website is the expression of this philosophy, an open way of thinking that encompasses today’s architecture and design environment and their cross interdependencies, cross-disciplinarily and cross-cultural influences. is the the focal point of our international network, where diversity and expertise reaches far beyond national boundaries, where A++’s selected and trusted partners all over the world actively collaborate sharing work, projects and vision.

The A++ magazine

To support the world need for communication in its more transparent and interactive face, we have created The A++ Magazine, an online, open source community dedicated to improving the way we all think of architecture and design through innovative and sustainable design. Here designers, student, architects, professionals and not of all persuasions will share their ideas, designs, plans, vision, belief and dreams to help build a more sustainable future. This site is, and ever more will be, an heterogeneous container of creativity, professionalism, background and culture brought together by a common way of conceiving today’s architecture and design.

we’re glad you are here!

The A++ team