We have been commissioned a house on a plot where it is difficult to imagine a home.
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Nature refuge in Castelo Branco, Portugal.
In a natural space between trees and rocks, a small refuge is set up to enjoy direct contact with nature. A great effort is made not to alter the environment where the cabin is located.
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Assembly of housing in Teo. Fifth day.
On this fifth day of assembly, all the interior partitions of the house will be placed. Once you have all the interior divisions, you can proceed with the electrical installation and finish the plumbing.
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Assembly of housing in Teo. Fourth day, Thursday.
Thursday, fourth day of assembly. We want to finish the interior of the facade and that the envelope of the entire house is ready to be protected in case of rain.
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Assembly of housing in Teo. Third day, Wednesday.
It is Wednesday the third day of assembly, we are going to start with the roof of the house. From now on we will be able to appreciate the exterior volume of the house.
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Assembly of housing in Teo. Second day, Tuesday.
Today is Tuesday, we continue showing the process of assembling the house. We continue with the structure, taking good care of the layout, which is the basis for everything to fit perfectly, as planned.
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Assembly of housing in Teo. First day, Monday.
Today Monday we begin the assembly of a single-family home. We are going to show in detail all the steps that will be taken and the precautions that must be taken so that all the construction elements fit perfectly into each other.
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The Hammock Tree in Zakynthos. Study of the assembly of a unit of the tourist complex.
It has been necessary to develop new pieces in order to make the design that originally was primarily a concept real. In addition, it has been necessary to study in detail, how to assemble all the pieces so that the assembly is as simple as possible.
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Ubuild incorporates an ecological and very versatile foundation system
The KRINNER company has been developing a foundation system for many years using metal piles that are screwed into the ground instead of being driven into the ground. We think this is a very good system, and we incorporated it to improve the versatility of Ubuild.
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The Hammock Tree in Zakynthos. A resort complex developed with Ubuild.
The studies of Alberto Corral and Novoa & Pardo are developing the project of an ecological tourist complex on a hillside on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea with the Ubuild construction system.
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Fabricando los componentes de dos viviendas para las afueras de Santiago
Estamos en estos momentos fabricando dos viviendas que se tienen que adaptar a la normativa de Nucleo Tradicional. Esto condiciona tanto el volumen como los materiales que se pueden utilizar. Además han tenido que dar el visto bueno las oficinas de Patrimonio de la Xunta de Galicia.
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Interview with Alberto Corral, creative architect of Ubuild
We have seen how the architects these years have recovered and covered diverse fields of work, even exploring in some less common ones such as research and development of products or systems, mainly populated by other professionals.
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o soutiño prefabricated house, a look at the whole process (video)
At this point, we have prepared a video where you can see the assembly of the house until you reach the facilities, before starting with the interior finishes. We invite you to see it to quickly understand the entire construction process with the Ubuild system.
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ecological house o soutiño part 11
The structure, the skeleton of the house, is ensemble. Now we´ll start with the components of the façade and with the roof. All the elements have got their space in the forms of the beams and the pillars. We only need to select the constructive elements and set them in the logical order that is visible in the forms of the beams and pillars. There is no range for a mistake.
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prefabricated house o soutiño part 10
The horizontal platform of the house must be finished in order to be able to assemble the pieces comfortably. We want to finish with all the exterior part as soon as possible to avoid problems with rain, as the weather forecast has changed. We are in Galicia.
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modular house, o soutiño part 9
It´s time to assemble all the fabricated elements in the building site. Everything has been thought and planned so that every piece fits in with the previous one, like a huge mecano, where there is no margin for inaccuracy. There are no improvisation nor surprises, because every single piece has got its function and its place in the whole.
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prefabricated house, o soutiño part 8
All the pieces of the house has been produced, now is time to move them to the property. In this first round we are just going to be moving the pieces that will create the outer part of it leaving the others for the second round.
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wood house, o soutino part 7
The structure that supports the house in air is a basic element. It makes possible that the house is elevated over the ground in order to have clean views from inside towards the beautiful valley orienting the east. We will show how the production and ensembling is.
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sustainable house, o soutiño part 6
All the structure of the house has already been produced. We have got the skeleton of the house and the next we will produce the remaining components of the building. The elements forming walls, floor and ceiling must be placed with perfect exactitude between beams and pillars and of course they must fit in with one another with a millimetric precision.
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green house, o soutiño part 5
While the works continues on the land, the production of the components of the house has started in the factory. First the structure, it is the frame-work and over it the rest fo the construction elements are fitted in. To produce beams and colums is necessary to use wood machining center, because the precision of each element is measured in milimeters, in order to fit it perfectly.
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bioclimatic architecture, o soutiño part 4
The work in the land has begun. As we atold in the part 3, we use the chestnut tree and the stone wall of the upper part as reference for placing the surface and the height of the house. In this part we will see how the stone walls are built to assemble the house over them later.
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green architecture, o soutiño house part 3
The views from the land towards the east are spectacular, including a large valley covered mainly by Woods and some groups of dispersed houses on the horizon. There are also some elements that can spoil this interesting description and prevent from enjoyning the views clearly. We have to see how to avoid it.
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sustainable architecture, o soutiño house part 2
All the lands have elements that make them unique. Those elements must be taken advantage of and must be enhanced. The are factors that can reduce the charm of the environment and those factors must be minimised. Now we will describe some of the positive aspects that O Soutiño has got and how they will be enhanced.
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prefabricated and ecological house, o soutiño part 1
building a ubuild construction. This is the first publicatiion of a series that takes places during the next weeks. We will demostrate all the process of the production and ensemblind of a ubuild house.
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