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An entrepreneur who builds from the natural

In the province of Cordoba Summit , for three years, Juan Manuel Vazquez began to build natural homes. This year already has three confirmed projects.
some years, Juan Manuel Vasquez-known agronomist in Summit as "natural homebuilder. Is that in 2007, after making a survey of the olive oil industry, found a significant loss of quality in the care of these foods.
"Investigating how extreme weather countries working with the food stores found that many did so in natural building houses mainly by two issues: thermal and humidity regulation. So it was with my base agronomist specializing in soil I started researching this topic and my career took a turning point, "Vazquez told a Commerce and Justice.
In his words, from that moment began a "slow process of training and research through two courses with Jorge Belanko (Argentina's benchmark ) and taking online courses to people of Oregon" (U.S. .)
"After many hours of study, passion and constant learning, we came today, along with architect Gaston Iglesias, to approve the first plans for building a house of raw land in the town of La Cumbre thanks to the willingness of the mayor and the secretary of Public Works to inform and internalized in the issue, "said Vazquez.
He added: "I knew very little about the subject. For me only served to cultivate land and crops to take returns. Today we plan to grow wheat in mind to build straw bale, grain yield is a bonus. "

- Who are the main targets of these natural home?
- The truth is that we can talk about a wide range of properties that would improve the lives of all occupants regardless of their rank. JOINING Can social houses for low-income plans (as recently done in Belanko Jorge Roldán, Black River) or really palaces of raw land as there are many examples in Morocco. Currently, we build homes for middle class.

- Where are building these homes?
- We are building in for Summit people who are very involved with the environment. This year we have three confirmed projects, we will demand nearly eight months in total.
- What is the cost of a house like this?
- are undoubtedly much cheaper than traditional homes, up to 40 percent cheaper. For example, compared with a cement block building, is taking in this area at a rate of 1,200 pesos per square meter only with the workforce, regardless of the material. In the case of natural vieviendas be paid about 1,600 pesos per square meter with labor and materials included. As the construction time is estimated meter per day. However, the greatest benefit is given by the health of those living inside.
- What projections and your expectations for this year?
- Ensure that the natural construction between the Building Code La Cumbre. addition, keep working and studying on the subject and work to develop more houses wheat straw bales made by us, that do not have to travel far.
mud House:
healthy spaces, inward and outward
A industrial building and the logistics of transporting materials is attributed more than 40 percent of global warming. The Kyoto Protocol calls for 2050 to reduce the consumption of cement in a very high percentage.
"Each new structure raises an impact on their environment, both by his presence and by the resources and materials involved. In building used natural raw materials (clay, sand, straw, wood, bamboo, etc.) According to the area to create healthier spaces inward and out. If we consider the complete cycle of the elements used in construction, we see that the materials industrialized / modern become trash, while natural materials / traditional return to Earth without major damage, "said Jorge Belanko, teacher and trainer on natural structures.
According to the specialist, an important aspect of this construction is related to the resources it consumes a structure during its lifetime. The power requirement for lighting, heating, cooling, is a key point in any home, regardless of the materials that has been built. On these issues, permaculture about many techniques and systems that enable the efficient use of energy and responsible handling of waste (reduce, reuse and recycling). "Every time is bigger than the current value to its knowledge of our ancestors around the building," he concluded Belanko.