Water and Energy Engineering for Sustainable Buildings Mihouse Project. Varios autores

with high resistance to such natural events and precisely with material that provide the proposed structural safety system required in these cases (Figure 1.2).

      This criteria, paired with the high sustainability of the chosen materials and the principles of constructive and structural efficiency, has hallowed to propose the Mihouse project as a building that can be shaped primarily by two prefabricated structural modules in prestressed concrete. These concrete modules can be conveniently repeated and assembled together and they define the spatiality of the housing units and the number of floors required for the technical feasibility of the proposal.

      For identification, we have given the name “Main Table” and “Central Table” at Figure 1.3.

Figure 1.3. Main Table and Central Table

      Main Table - Central Table

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      Resting on a foundation of reinforced concrete plate, which must be designed according to the type of terrain that applies in each case, the main structure of the building is resolved as a stack of these basic structural modules, linked together by mechanical fasteners that provide and ensure its comprehensive action to support vertical loads and horizontal seismic forces. Along with a perfect assembly of the constituent parts, this new system excludes the need to dry joint, which is one of the most critical points in the traditional way as usually these structures are resolved.

      The following Figure 1.4 shows the design of the prototype of the apartment located at the top floor of the building at the residential condominium, the process of assembly of this house would be first the junction of the modules shown in Figure 1.3 through high resistance mechanical anchors, then the installation of the ramp, steel orchard, Teak wood blinds, the green wall structure and the plastic wood deck, would be made forming the residence shown in the Figure 1.4.

Figure 1.4. Mihouse Prototype design

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      In addition to the residence prototype, the following sequence shows the assembly of the modules up to the completed building, and conceptually illustrates high construction efficiency of the proposal.

Figure 1.5. Assembly of the modules up to the completed building.

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      Wall lengths resulting in each orthogonal direction of structural plant generate a high regularity in response to earthquake resistant assembly being confluent in perfect symmetry and the center of mass and rigidity, thereby providing high reliability in evaluation of earthquake resistant building in the light of the rules required by the Colombian Earthquake Resistant Building Regulations NSR-10, mandatory in our country (Figure 1.5).