BEIRUT:
The Ixsir winery overlooking Basbina, Batroun in northern Lebanon has been
named as one of the greenest buildings worldwide by CNN.
Twelve
buildings around the world were chosen, for their “innovative design and
construction methods and for promoting sustainability.”
The
winery, which won a Green Good Design 2011, “combines a restored 400-year-old feudal
house with a modern-built, green-skinned (walls or roof of any building that
have green capability, e.g. they could have plants growing in them) structure,”
according to the U.S. news network.
Designed
by Raed Abillama Architects, founded in Lebanon in 1997, “its cellar spaces are
buried within the ground as a thermal sponge, creating the needed equilibrium
of temperature and humidity.”
The winery also recycles
all wastewater and vegetable residue, which is turned into compost and
rainwater is used for irrigation.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2011/Dec-22/157623-ixsir-winery-among-cnns-greenest-buildings-globally.ashx#axzz1k6wYgero
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