What is Bioconstruction?

The Bioconstruction, as a modern and contemporary concept, has been coming together for about 25-30 years.

It is born as a new, clear and comprehensive discipline that allows meeting common objectives to fields as different as the Sustainable Technologies, Ecology, Bioclimatic Architecture or Public Health, with the coherence and vision of the future essential for the development of Planning Urban, Architecture and Construction in general.

In all Western countries, similar needs arise, with more or less force, such as:

• Prevent health problems arising from construction materials and electromagnetic fields both natural and those generated by electrical installations, inside and outside a building.
• Adopt measures of social and environmental balance, between the origin and destination of a construction material.
• Apply energy saving and efficiency measures in the design of buildings.
• Analysis of the materials according to their toxicity, their ecological footprint and their useful life.
• Integration of solar energy systems in buildings as well as development of measures that lead to sustainable and efficient water management.

Some of the different approaches and points of view that have always been of Architecture and Construction, needed a definition that would accommodate ideas and approaches that came from Traditional Architecture, Ecological Construction, Rehabilitation and Restoration of Heritage, or the basic approaches offered by certain currents such as Organic Architecture, Anthroposophical Architecture, Natural Architecture, Solar Architecture, Sustainable Construction, as well as the teachings that have come from the hand of Sacred Geometry, or modern research disciplines such as Bioelectromagnetism or Geobiology.

All of them and many other currents have been concretized in something much broader, more modern and coherent under the simple name of Bioconstruction.

It is, therefore, something more than Bioclimatics or Ecology: it is designing and building not only with respect to Nature (its forces, its materials, etc.) and the Health factor of the people who will develop their lives in those constructions. And it is also about more than solar or renewable facilities or a natural water management, because it encompasses a whole series of teachings that allows man to occupy and inhabit a space within a construction and to be in resonance with his own environment and with the beings that are going to occupy it: Bio (Life) -Construction is nothing more than Construction for Life.