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This is one home you’re not likely to forget in a
hurry. The Villa Bio in Figueres, Spain designed by Cloud9, Barcelona is as
eye-catching a home as it is Green. This home has a gorgeous living roof, floor
to ceiling glass windows that cap the ends and even an underground parking.
The entire structure of the house seems to be composed
of one ribbon of concrete, slit across the middle and pulled up to make it seem
like a split-level. There are also no beams in the house to support the
structure, even with the living roof which adds a considerable amount of
weight. The living roof at Villa Bio is also designed to support the weight of
people lounging in the garden as well as gardening on it. The garden however is
a Hydroponic garden which means the garden is planted without the use of
soil.
However, there is the fact that concrete has a rather
high carbon footprint. But on the upside it has a remarkably long life and can be recycled.
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