From the firm built by the late National Artist for Architecture Leandro Locsin to Cubo Modular, there is a constant push to go green in urban and rural planning
Every day, we, with advocates and organisations alike, think of ways to reduce the negative impacts on the environment caused by human activity. From ecosystem management programs to educational initiatives, we ensure that the country accomplishes—albeit slowly, but is progress nonetheless—the sustainable development goals.
Business owners and architects also lent a helping hand in guaranteeing a sustainable way of living for everyone. By incorporating recyclable materials, circular-economy projects, and zero-energy designs into their ideas, they contribute to the environmental cause.
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Here are some of the sustainable architectures in the Philippines by environmentally-savvy owners and advocates:
Bamboo house kits by Cubo Modular
In an interview with Tatler last 2022, Zahra Halabisaz Zanjani, co-founder of housing provider Cubo Modular, shares that their housing business is a direct and practical response to the housing problem. By creating high-quality, customisable, affordable homes built in just hours, they offer housing and simultaneously lessen the negative impacts of construction on the environment.
Their housing kits also use uniquely-engineered bamboo that comes from a renewable source. It's energy-saving, for it is a natural heat and sound insulator—perfect for the Southeast Asian climate. It also has superior engineering properties with 14 times greater strength than concrete and local Philippine hardwood.
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