Delhi gets its first ever green home

House number H-1456, named 'Green One' is located in South Delhi's Chittaranjan Park (CR Park), less than 100 metres from the local police station. 

The house is the result of the dream of constructing an environment-friendly house at a time when 90 % of Delhi is uninhabitable and is getting shorn of its green cover

Proshanto Roy, the owner of the house, said.

It is the ITC Green Building in Gurgaon that influenced me. So I pulled down my house in C.R. Park and re-built it using environment-friendly and recycled material 

 

It cost a little less than Rs 4 crore, he said, and is built with an overall fenestration design to reduce heat gain.

The staggering and stacking provides shade and also maximises the effect of diffused lighting. 

The interiors have been built with recycled building materials like fly-ash bricks, while autoclaved aerated concrete (ACC) bricks have been used for the walls. 

Approximately, 54.72 % of the total living area falls under the day-lit zone. Furthermore, glass with low solar heat gain co-efficient (SHGC) has been used to ensure the same. 

Artificial lights with low power density (LPD) have been used throughout.