A spectacular design from XPIRAL Architecture has sustainable features which made the house into news, Casa de los Pinos, the name of the house, which means House among the Pines; this house is situated in Mountain EI Esparragal, Murcia, Spain.
This House is built with the locally available materials to various parts of the house, like the timber is used built the pathways of the house. The walls are all built with glass which allows plenty of natural light, makes it a sustainable house. A grassy courtyard in the interior give the house a great look adding to it was the walls fashioned with the local Rocks. Major attraction of this house is its roof which folds over the home’s expansive windows. Again the trees that were removed during the construction were also replanted on the property. This house futuristic and sustainable design makes it icon among the locals.

Casa de los Pinos (House Among the Pines) proves that sustainable features need not play second fiddle to fashionable ones. This amazing modern house designed by XPIRAL Architecture sits high on a mountain in El Esparragal, Murcia, Spain, nestled among the pines for which it’s named. Enclosed in walls of glass, an interior grassy courtyard allows nature to permeate the design. Locally sourced building materials are used where possible, such as the rock fashioned into walls, and timber used to build the home’s pathways. And at the end of the day, the number of trees removed from the site was later replanted on the property. With sustainable design accounted for, the architects too took a modern, fashion-forward approach to the unique home, topping it with a futuristic roof which folds over to conceal the home’s expansive windows. Natural light floods interiors, illuminating modern, industrial details like exposed beams, concrete and the contemporary framed windows.XPIRAL via Inhabitat

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