HEALTHY HOME

Basic principles of a healthy home :

1. Maximize Natural Lighting

Sunlight can be optimally used as a source of natural light in your healthy home with the guidelines:

a. Building orientation

The building should be facing North-South to avoid heat and direct sunlight.

b. The room size and Aperture

So that sunlight can enter the room and illuminate the maximum size of the width of the room should be 2 times the size of the aperture height.

2. Natural ventilation

The principle of natural ventilation is creating air circulation to cool the air entering into the room and circulate the hot air out through openings that are positioned strategically. Position openings are good for creating air circulation is opening top and bottom openings.

3. Waste Management System

Waste management systems are essential to avoid contamination of the water supply in the house. Good waste management can be achieved by following the pattern of waste placement

4. Rain Water Shelter

Rainwater can be collected and used for many daily needs such as toilet flushing, gardening, or washing the car. With rainwater harvesting and reuse your healthy home will be more efficient, environmentally friendly as well.

5. Translucent layers of water

Natural disasters such as floods and landslides can be avoided if we provide enough catchment area. Catchment wide narrow land can be achieved with the use of layers mengotimalkan / translucent surfaces such as grass and water grass block on the page, car parking (carport), and a way for the water to flow and seep naturally into the ground.