If you want to build or restore a house…

Firstly it is necessary to consult who wishes to live in before starting to build or restore a house made to measure of man.
Generally people don't want houses too high or too large, neither too distant nor too close, but such to be able to communicate an open space cosiness feeling at the same time: a house included in a sphere where it is possible to join, to socialize, and to work however keeping their own privacy so that people can lead an harmonious and sensible life style.
On the contrary, it is obvious how the modern city development is a failure: a wild exploitation of the territory which determines poor quality life style, large amounts of heat and fumes coming from the vehicles exhausts and from the heating systems, the bad ground waterproofing.
All of this affects both the eco-system and the psychophysical well being of those who were born in that area or by choice, for need or for work have to live there.
So, planning one's life, following an ecological criteria, became not just a simple choice but also a necessity, and this is the reason why over the last twenty years the ecological conscience expanded and the environmental theme became so popular.
It is important, though, to point out that when we use the terms like ecology and bio-architecture, often used inappropriately, we refer to a concept that: mainly does not contradict the technology, it does not mean a generalized "well-being" and in keeping with the Nature's rules; by such terms we do not want embrace any demagogic creed nor any fanaticism.
More simply we refer to the search of a new delicate balance which helps the human being of this early century to still live in a society made to measure for him which won't look like one of the cities in "Blade- Runner" and at the same time won't seek comfort in an anachronistic and utopian research of the Arcadia: a false myth well known.
"Building Resources"  (trade mark of Ges Ter of Mauro Egizi s.a.s.) it's a team of technical consultants and artisan companies which wants to improve the health, the comfort and the design qualifications, through a new dimension and a new approach with the way of building or restoring.
The group of work was born by a twenty-year experience of building private houses, residential dwellings or holiday houses. Building Resources  will try to give its support for the improvement of your daily environment: the private space in your home, the keeper of your affections, the place where each person can express one's personality as best as one can; nest, shelter or anything else means home space.
The designed space will be done following the fundamental rules that respect the physiological, psychological and social needs that very often are forgotten.
It will have to be free of any unnatural artfulness, which is the cause of different kind and grade of pathologies.
The house is a primary need, an undeniable requirement, like clothes
it contributes to create one's identity, one's peculiarity and it expresses it.
A house is the extent in the space of our body and our personality.
A house is the extent in the space of our psyche and the soul, the memories and the affections container.
The house protects us, it shelters us and it guards us, but it also talks about us, it tells our passions, our cultural choices, and it may also express our economical standing, and rank.
Thanks to his environment and his experiences related to his senses (auditive, vision, tactile or any other sense related to the well-being or uneasiness) the human being shaped the new material extensions of his own space, that he absorbed along with his territory and then he established all those limits that should create the "territory" such as the invisible and visible, the crossing and the impassable, the personal and the social, the public and the personal. The configuration of the anthropological landscape, consisting of hamlets, towns, cities and metropolis combined with country sides, rivers, hills, wood lands, follows a general plan that was given time after time by the town planning technicians who interpreted the common imaginary and the social-economical demands that however changes in the long run.
This is valid as well for the prearrangement of the interiors and the exteriors of our dwellings.
There is a room for any physiological function: for the nourishment, for the hygienic care, for the relax, for light activities and social relationships.
It is well known that some parts of a house have a characteristic symbolic meaning: like every one knows there are some taboo which regulate the access to the various rooms (i.e.: the parents bedroom, the bathroom, the studio….)
This could confirm the assumption about the supposed human disposition to the territoriality, similar to the one of the social animals.
The houses we build have to be compared to our territory, where the physical-personal space can be extended with no limits.
It is like if every individual owes around his own body a sort of an imaginary space bubble by many different dimensions.
A transparent covering that wraps our selves and defines the physiological boundaries of our body: a sort of a small cushion which preserves us, protects us and defends us from others eventual or invasions.
All of this compromises that the interior space will refer to a project study in order to optimize the interpersonal relationships, either between the people and the furnishings and the subdivision of the space.
This will be possible if one takes into consideration the shapes, the dimensions and the furniture arrangement that very often represents a compulsion to the expression of our behaviours.
In order to make the most of the potentialities "our" house will combine in the best way the building material with the building technologies.
From the beginning of the project we will take into consideration and analyze the ground in order to verify any record of geological weathering or magnetic disturbances, so to orient the building in respect to the terrestrial magnetism and the sun route.
If we look at a house that was built before 1940 we generally find a building that was constructed taking into consideration the natural elements.
The ancients used to spend long time studying the right place to build, nothing was chosen at random.
We can say that houses used to work well, they used to be functional.
In the coldest rooms such as the cellar, the loft or the storage wine and food used to be well kept. Where it was less cold they use to put the bedrooms.
Since it was much more comfortable and easier having the fire wood and water handy, the kitchen with a large open fire place used to be the first room as soon as you used to come in the house.
Building "on hard" was meant taking advantage of the outcrops of rocks in the ground and start raising the supporting walls on top of them.
The post-economic boom greed of building makes some of our clients still wonder: is it possible to have a terrace? Just when we are about to restore a house in the countryside that has five hectares of land on the top of the hill and a gorgeous and overwhelming view. "Our" house should mirror the context and the environment where is located, it should aim to satisfy the needs of those who will live it in, it should locate eventual new alternative energetic sources like the solar energy, and finally it should re-established the relationship between Nature- human being- Architecture pointing out the attention to two fundamental aspects: the ergonomic and the morphologic ones.
As far as concerns the ergonomic aspect it refers to all that regards the nowadays pathologies.
In fact there are some pathologies deriving from the human kind behaviours and alterations that he made on the environment (such as cardiovascular illnesses, tumours, mental and neurological illnesses) that can be treated only through the study of the relation of the human being with the environment.
The morphological environment pays attention instead to the dichotomy between the structural and constructive technologies and the energetic, bioclimatic and of instalments one, in order to achieve an alternative technology that will put them all together.
In fact it is not possible to consider the first as a technology that needs to be applied to the second, for the purpose of correcting the climatic and ecological inaccuracies.
Building ResourcesÒ will operate in such a way that the energetic technology will become part of the constructive one, which means that it will join the shape determination, of the architecture configuration, without forgetting to take into consideration the antique techniques of environmental control used along with the most sophisticated contemporary technologies.
A kind of architecture that reflects all these aspects and that it must be conceived and perceived as a "living system", as part of the Nature.
Buildings should become part of the natural energies flow without disturbing them, they should be ecologically built, that is with low input or output of energy, they should give a positive impulse to the senses of smell and touch, etc.
All of this consideration stimulated our research that is defined in the development of the "Building Resources" Staff.
We have located some needs and problems in the current way of living-in and we reckoned to give a solution to each of them with introduction of innovative technologies and a new project thinking which respects the main points of the ecological way of building.
Therefore we are sure that it will be interesting to illustrate in chapters the solutions for the different identified needs.