Friday, August 31, 2012

Recycling Rubber Wood Waste Material (Hevea Brasiliensis Will) for Exterior Wall in Minimalist Green House as an Adaptation of Climate Change (Using OTTV Analysis)


Dany Perwita Sari & Sukma Surya Kusumah
RND BIOMATERIALS , INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES (LIPI)
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Minimalist style is realism, functionalism, and modern functional style. This style is simpler residential spaces and furnishings emerged. Nowadays, around the world prefer to minimalist style. Minimalist style is growing rapidly in Mild Climate and Continental Climate zone.
Left to right: (1)Guilhem eustache's bewitching fobe house, Morocco; (2) Modern and minimalist Hungarian home; (3) Takeshi hosaka's house, Japan; (4) Modern minimalist house, Australia
How about Indonesia? Architecture minimalist already exist in Indonesia and popular as “Jenki Style”

Jenki Style house in Baranangsiang, Bogor, Indonesia
This style is combination between Minimalist, Tropical and Traditional Styles. Minimalist Architecture becomes one of popular design specially Urban Area.

Limited land in Urban Area affected in increased Building Material Cost and expensive construction for housing and becomes the major issues. Minimalist traditional (Jenki) are transform becomes Minimalist Modern which more simple and reduce material cost and construction without oblivious to include human comfort. 
This design tends highly consumption energy (fossil fuel) for daily life from Air Conditioning and lighting. Building sector was responsible for almost half of all greenhouse gas emissions annually. Waste of mechanical energy for Air Conditioner and lighting are creating energy crisis and climate change (emissions of CO2).

Climate change nowadays was the biggest issues of this century. Architect and building material scientist looking for new method for reducing the heat flow from the sun to inside the house. One of popular way is giving exterior layer to wall.

Left-right: (1) Petate grass building, Mexico; (2) Green-roofed brazilian home, Brazil; (3) The bamboo curtain house, Singapore
However, Indonesia has blessed with resources of all kinds. A continuing abundance of forest resources has, since the earliest settlers, encouraged using wood to build housing. Recycling rubber wood (havea brasiliensis  (willd.ex a.juss.) mull. arg.) waste material as exterior layer in minimalist house in Indonesia to reduce the heat transfer is one of solution. Why using wood for exterior layer? Why using rubber waste material?

From the early research with Overall Thermal Transfer Value (OTTV) can prove that the minimalist house whose wall has covered by hardwood could reduce the thermal resistance up to 3.703 Watt/m2. In another side, wood’s price is higher than before because of the wood’s supply in Indonesia become less and less. Rubber wood, one somewhat fast growing species of hardwood, generally used to plywood because of it mechanical properties as same as Teak wood. 
Minimalist Green House using Rubber Wood waste material as exterior wall layer to reduce heat transfer
Source: Dany Perwita Sari and Sukma Surya Kusumah (2012)
However, their wastes are used to firewood. Using wood wastes of Rubber wood as a wall cover (exterior) could proves that the minimalist house design, adapted from aboard, has become energy efficient house that can reduce the climate change’s effects.

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