Cotton LifeStyle is committed to promoting ecological, healthy activities that are integrated in the chosen places. Look for great versatility and a non-aggressive and environmentally friendly settlement. Easy to assemble, modify and disassemble, Ubuild is the embodiment of the ideas that Cotton LiffeStyle wants to carry out.
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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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construction of the pond for o soutiño house
Manuel, a nature lover, is going to explain us what things to keep in mind when creating a pond on our property. He is also going to walk us through all the different steps he took to create one of his own.
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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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