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Arizona
Architect
When people think of architecture in Arizona,
the beautiful haciendas, ranches and adobe homes come into
mind. Arizona has a rugged desert landscape which creates a
unique challenge to architects as well as providing a variety
of building options. Most homes in Arizona are equipped with
modern amenities with specious rooms, which include open floor
plans.
Due to the desert nature of the environment in Arizona, An
Arizona architect
will have developed designs that will ensure that houses are
inhabitable by creating a ‘thermal mass’. Designs in Arizona
range from the green building designs, to adobe homes. The main
focus of green building designs is to increase the efficiency
in using available resources. The main aim is to reduce the
impact of building activities to the environment and people’s
way of life. The passive solar building designs are part of the
green building designs; they are structured to ensure that
temperatures are low, below the sun’s high heat as well as
helps in reducing the requirements for cooling and heating
systems.
Rammed earth design is an ancient green building design, which
involves compressing together a mixture of damp soil with
suitable proportion of sand, gravel and a stabilizer. The
rammed are used to create walls using reinforcements. The
designs are highly suitable for the hot conditions of Arizona
as they regulate temperatures by heating slowly during the day
and release the heat at night. Adobe building designs is common
with any Arizona architect and synonymous with the structures
in the Northwest regions of the United States. The building
materials made into bricks from clay and water as well as other
organic materials. Modern Adobe homes are popular in Arizona
because of their beautiful nature as well as their suitability
to the region. It is known that an Arizona architect will have
sought to use locally available materials to build high world
class homes thus reducing costs as well as creating practical
solutions to the concerns of the residents.
by chester miller - July 8 2009
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