Le natural floors I'm a second skin for the terrain: they live perfectly integrated into the environment and, at the same time, are highly functional for human activities, be it simple leisure. And this is a very current combination, dear to the greatest designers of the contemporary era. The famous architect Italo Rota, for example, in ainterview stated that "Blurring the boundaries between the natural and artificial world is one of the main challenges of contemporary architecture“. And they seem to be responding to this challenge natural floors that, contact with the topsoil, they don't distort it at all. Let's delve deeper into the topic by understanding why, in terms of infrastructure, an ecological road is, in most cases, preferable to classic asphalt.
Natural flooring: perfect contact with the topsoil
An natural flooring has many features and each of these is perfectly integrated with the environment in which it is created, be it a path in nature, a house driveway, or a road in a village characterized by the protection of landscape restrictions. Let's start from the aspect linked to environmental impact.
Natural floors are draining
Il contact with the topsoil is insured, especially in terms of hydraulic invariance. Let's explain better: one natural flooring è permeable and draining. This means that the materials with which it is made allow water to infiltrate naturally into the ground, avoiding runoff but, indeed, encouraging the dispersion of excess water bodies. This allows us, even in an urban context, to combat the phenomenon of flooding, which is so frequent in our cities covered in non-permeable concrete and asphalt.
Natural floors have a low environmental impact
Lenvironmental impact of natural paving is very low: in contact with the topsoil, in fact, it is usually used quarry stabilized, inert of 100% natural origin which can also be recovered in situ (i.e. in the place where it operates), thus reducing the costs (and emissions) relating to transport. In addition to the search for "0km" materials, once processed the material will not release polluting particles into the ground when rainwater filters into it. The aquifers will be safe.
Natural floors are 100% recyclable
In addition to being natural, this particular type of flooring is completely recyclable. Being made with natural materials, once decommissioned - unlike asphalt - it will not have to be disposed of as special waste but can come back to new life as recycled stabilized: it is an excellent example of circular economy which, in the near future, will have to become the rule (and not the exception) in the production of man-made goods and infrastructures, in every area and sector.
Stabilized earth in contact with topsoil: a perfect combination
Research on materials and technological innovation have made it possible to find hi-tech solutions to problems as old as man, such as that of traveling along a road safely, even if placed within a natural context.
Solid Earth, leader in Italy in the sector of sustainable flooring, he created the stabilized land, perfect for creating various types of surfaces, both pedestrian and vehicular. The judicious use of stabilized and eco-friendly binders it has made it possible to create roads and pavements that last over time, characterized by high permeability and the protection of the underlying land. Perfect in both a natural and urban context (think of car parks, sidewalks, cycle paths and so on) the natural floors do breathe the soil, bringing nature back to the city too.
In short, the reasons why natural floorings get along well with topsoil there are many: each of them should convince us that, if the eco-friendly option is as valid as the option that has a greater impact on the environment, it would really be senseless not to rely on sustainability.
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