Lattice design made with recycled polymeric concrete for the facade of a single-family house

Abstract

There has been an increase in the generation of urban solid waste and special handling waste in Mexico in recent years; today there are not enough final disposal sites to dispose of the waste that is generated. Urgent measures that reduce the number of waste that enters these sites through proper reuse and recycling. For this reason, this article shows how–through an appropriate recovery–materials and elements can be re-purposed for the construction of single-family homes. For this, a lattice for an exterior facade was designed from a recycled polymer concrete in order to improve the range of thermal comfort and mitigate energy consumption inside a single-family home in the municipality of Cuautla Morelos. An experimental and descriptive methodology was carried out where the elaboration of molds was carried out to later obtain the lattice and finally mechanical, thermal tests and digital simulations of the wind tunnel. Favorable results were obtained from the geometry applied to the lattice and the performance of the material in a hot climate.