Thank you
and I ‘m going to take you on a walk through the
mountain tomorrow on Saturday imagine that
you leave the city tonight and go to
spend a few days on the mountain
tomorrow morning you wake up with
these views that feeling of
reconnect with nature breathe
the pure air enjoy the good scenery
We have spent some wonderful days in
the mountain playing with children
walking reading but because everything
good always ends and the
time to return to the city
when we arrived in the city
it always gives us that shock sensation of
the return to the reality of pollution
the stress of day to day floors without
payers and many of us are
there is that romantic idea that one day
so I’ll go live forever in the
because that’s where I feel good
really
but good while we have not had
still the courage to radically change
our way of life we return to
our houses our house is ours
small oasis in the city here is where
one feels good where we all
we feel protected from these aggressions
from outside and that’s where we can finally
breathe again as deeply as
in those days so good that we’ve spent
in the mountain
or is it not good
according to the world data bank the 50
percent of the world’s population lives
in cities of these people that
live in cities spend up to 90%
of indoor time either at home
at school in the office and also the
indoor air reaches levels of
pollution almost up to 5 times
higher than outside
and this how is possible good is true
that outside there are cars and pollution and everything
this but there is also a ventilation
constant by wind action
then the air trapped the air
polluted that goes in here inside it
is trapped inside
well now we all know these
data maybe it’s not a bad idea
to leave us all outside to go breathe a
little bit of air but good I think not
it’s very operative now move to 300
people then a little the question
that we are placed is how we have arrived
until here and for this I am going to tell you
the abbreviated history of the materials
of construction and air that
we breathe in our houses
let’s start with prehistory in the
prehistory there was no concept of
building materials
cavemen what they did was
just inhabit the caves that
they found
then when we go to old age
is when for the first time in history
we talk about construction what the
man of this era was to collect the
materials he found around him
like stone the wood and build your
houses now we move on to middle age and to
Roman period here is when by
different times are mixed
natural materials to get a
new material such as the
concrete that is nothing more than a mixture
sands of stone and water and that we
allows to make a new material then
if these new materials gave off
some kind of substances that is what
we represent with these balls here
it’s really not a problem
because the indoor air and the air
outside was basically the same the
buildings ventilated so
permanent
now we make a leap in history and
we came to the industrial revolution with
the industrial revolution the ability to
produce in series have invented a
endless building materials
new of new raw materials
many of these new materials with
benefits that until then
existed as flexibility or
transparency for example and here is
where the thing gets interesting
many of these materials so
fantastic with new features in
actually give off substances that
they do not look and they do not feel but they are
very harmful to our health
I give an example you know that car smell
new that one feels so comfortable
and so proud of his new car that
invites his friends to sit inside and
enjoy me a new machine then
lousy
actually that smell are compounds
volatile organic compounds that are
substances that come off the
interior panels of the car cost
of plastics and that affect a lot
to our health they have effects
neurotoxins are endocrine disruptors
and they can even become
carcinogenic
but going back to what happens in our
houses do not forget to tell you a very
important story in the 70s
the oil embargo happens and together
with the oil embargo a new
concern the energy saving
then to avoid possible losses
of energy ie cold or heat to
From this time on, the buildings
designed to be as watertight
possible then what happens the air
polluted that is generated that comes out of
these materials and that is generated inside
of our houses is trapped
inside and that is why it is spoken for
first time in history in the
problem in the problematic of the
indoor air quality
and good and today where we are there
many construction materials the
technology knowledge does not stop from
evolve we have even reached a
moment when there are already materials that
they have active properties
decontaminate the air or kill
bacteria that we represent it with these
green points
but nevertheless the problematic of the
Indoor air quality is maintained
then as you can see not all are
bad news and all this that I have
counted right now it can be summarized from
a very simple way because after a
process of three years of research
among other things obviously we have
realized a very simple thing that
is that all the materials of
construction of the planet can be
group in three boxes
are the inert materials that is to say
that do not give off anything or absorb anything
as for example the ceramic or almost
all stones
we have box number 2 which are the
materials that give off things that are
these substances that are not seen and do not
feel but that affect the air that
we breathe like for example some
pvc pavement paints even with
some woods this also happens
and there is box number 3 which are the
materials that absorb things absorb
things and transform them into other vouchers
the materials of box number 3 are
divided into two groups are the heroes and
there are the villains then the heroes
are those materials that capture these
air substances or bacteria that
we carry in our hands and
they transform something inert into something
innocuous as are for example materials
photocatalytic or copper that is a
Naturally bactericidal material is
say that it kills the bacteria
on the other side are the villains
then the villains are materials that
it’s wrong they also pick up these substances
but that transform them into something still
worst
as for example you know those models
old of the houses of our
grandmothers imagine a child
playing in one of these models and this
child sneezes the mucus that is
fall to the carpet that in the end are not
more than bacteria will stay there
accumulated and good and the effect
multiplier does not need to be explained
but the world of construction
currently does not go around here today
the construction materials are chosen
based on three factors their
benefits is to say this material I
it does or does not work for what I want the cost and
aesthetics what we have realized
is that we are missing a very important factor here
important that is the health factor
like many processes or almost all
research processes ours
started with a question that was we can
from the architecture help the process
of healing a patient
Well I would love to be able to say that the
architecture heals but it’s not like that without
doctors are doctors but what is
we can do from the architecture is to
through a careful choice of
building materials guarantee
optimal environmental quality and with this
facilitate the string process of a
patient and obviously not harm him
well the result of this equation is my
work and it’s called friend and martínez
what we do is I understand these
variables that give me information about
how materials affect the air
that we breathe as your emissions of
volatile organic compounds if they are
toxic in case of fire or its
chemical composition for example if yes
have these variables and I can
ponder because I can score
Building materials from 0 to 100
and I give you an example that surely
some of you will be familiar
how many of you are parents or mothers
half more or less of those who are
parents or mothers surely many of
you have lived the moment of
decorate the room of the first child and
choose the color of your walls true
if blue pink girl child if fijaros
that at no time your decision
is based on whether this painting can affect
to the health of our baby
90% of the time this kind of
decision is based exclusively on the
esthetic
good now that those who are parents
they want to leave and apologize to their
children, I give you a solution, imagine that
we have two types of paintings the painting
brand to mark paint see the two are
the only thing that changes is the
manufacturer then it paint
has a health level of 92 points and
the painting sees has a level of health of
52 points is to say it’s healthier
who sees what you’re going to put in the
room of your children
good this kind of information about
classification of materials
construction not only of paintings but of
all the materials that can be
apply indoors you can
consult freely in front and
dotcom materials and right now I
I think many of you will be
asking but i was
interesting if I’m neither an architect nor
I have no relationship with the industry
of the good construction that you know that
according to the epa that is the environmental agency
American the population group that you see
most affected by pollution in
Interior environments are babies and
small children pregnant women or
in lactation period and the elderly
curiously this is the group
population that usually spends more time
indoor
And besides, we’ve all been this baby
many of us will be mothers and we will all arrive
elderly
on the other hand they are recognized at the
today’s scientific problems
health and pathologies such as lipoatrophy
the sick building syndrome or the
sqm that is a pathology that has to
see with the sensitivity to agents
chemicals present inside the
intolerance to wi-fi networks or fields
electromagnetic good I speak to us
only health spoke also of
productivity there is a study that did
harvard in 2016 very interesting
which is that what it does is the relationship
between a field in a healthy environment
and productivity the improvement in the
cognitive response is of the order of
almost 300 percent when one works
in a healthy environment
good and now to finish and I see
the hypochondriacs passed out there at
final I give you a few
recommendations that I think you can
be useful to do with that
your houses are environments
truly healthy the first of
all economical and easy to apply
ventilate your houses regularly
minimum 15 minutes a day
another recommendation the ceramic always
it is a very good option is a material
inert, that is, it does not give off anything
absorbs nothing is quite economic very
Easy to clean and also super
resistant
If you have to choose an elective painting
paints with low emissions of
volatile organic compounds or
ideally with zero emissions this type
of information is found in the
paint containers and does not mean a
increase in costs such as buying milk
skimmed or semi-skimmed the same without
However, if you want to go to the
paintings you can choose a painting
photocatalytic which is a painting that
has the ability to decontaminate the
air when it has contact with light
natural is a process very similar to the
photosynthesis
If you have to buy wooden furniture
or are you thinking about changing your
flooring our floors by a floor
of wood a certified parquet that
They try hand-held woods , gas, forgiveness with
low formaldehyde emissions is the
way to guarantee that you are not
contaminating the inside of your
houses
another very important recommendation
benefits are often enemies
Of the health
what does he mean
the message is always to distrust a
material that has benefits that do not
They are your originals as per
example a wood that does not burn or a
stone that doubles what is done in
these cases is to impregnate the
materials with a chemical soup that
give the material these new
benefits but at the same time
are contributing to a contamination
of the indoor air
if you are not in the phase of reforming
our houses or our offices
no problem there is another advice
practical that I think is quite useful
in the year 89 the NASA did a study in
the one that identified the five plants
most suitable to pollute the air
previous good among them there are good
examples here we have the sword of san
jorge ‘the bamboo palm tree good and there
others to finish the last example
light bulbs ionizer air ace os what
I explain the air we breathe is
loaded with ions then the air from the
you remember that first photo
that I taught you about the mountain because the air
of the mountain is loaded with ions
negative which is what makes us feel
well when we breathe against the
City air is loaded with ions
positive then what do these
light bulbs is transforming the ions
positive in negative ions and they are not
very expensive
and good to finish I would like to
final all this that I have explained to you not
it’s more than having the knowledge
suitable for making choices
responsible and I would like to leave you with
this last message that is now that
you can choose health and thanks
[Applause]
and I ‘m going to take you on a walk through the
mountain tomorrow on Saturday imagine that
you leave the city tonight and go to
spend a few days on the mountain
tomorrow morning you wake up with
these views that feeling of
reconnect with nature breathe
the pure air enjoy the good scenery
We have spent some wonderful days in
the mountain playing with children
walking reading but because everything
good always ends and the
time to return to the city
when we arrived in the city
it always gives us that shock sensation of
the return to the reality of pollution
the stress of day to day floors without
payers and many of us are
there is that romantic idea that one day
so I’ll go live forever in the
because that’s where I feel good
really
but good while we have not had
still the courage to radically change
our way of life we return to
our houses our house is ours
small oasis in the city here is where
one feels good where we all
we feel protected from these aggressions
from outside and that’s where we can finally
breathe again as deeply as
in those days so good that we’ve spent
in the mountain
or is it not good
according to the world data bank the 50
percent of the world’s population lives
in cities of these people that
live in cities spend up to 90%
of indoor time either at home
at school in the office and also the
indoor air reaches levels of
pollution almost up to 5 times
higher than outside
and this how is possible good is true
that outside there are cars and pollution and everything
this but there is also a ventilation
constant by wind action
then the air trapped the air
polluted that goes in here inside it
is trapped inside
well now we all know these
data maybe it’s not a bad idea
to leave us all outside to go breathe a
little bit of air but good I think not
it’s very operative now move to 300
people then a little the question
that we are placed is how we have arrived
until here and for this I am going to tell you
the abbreviated history of the materials
of construction and air that
we breathe in our houses
let’s start with prehistory in the
prehistory there was no concept of
building materials
cavemen what they did was
just inhabit the caves that
they found
then when we go to old age
is when for the first time in history
we talk about construction what the
man of this era was to collect the
materials he found around him
like stone the wood and build your
houses now we move on to middle age and to
Roman period here is when by
different times are mixed
natural materials to get a
new material such as the
concrete that is nothing more than a mixture
sands of stone and water and that we
allows to make a new material then
if these new materials gave off
some kind of substances that is what
we represent with these balls here
it’s really not a problem
because the indoor air and the air
outside was basically the same the
buildings ventilated so
permanent
now we make a leap in history and
we came to the industrial revolution with
the industrial revolution the ability to
produce in series have invented a
endless building materials
new of new raw materials
many of these new materials with
benefits that until then
existed as flexibility or
transparency for example and here is
where the thing gets interesting
many of these materials so
fantastic with new features in
actually give off substances that
they do not look and they do not feel but they are
very harmful to our health
I give an example you know that car smell
new that one feels so comfortable
and so proud of his new car that
invites his friends to sit inside and
enjoy me a new machine then
lousy
actually that smell are compounds
volatile organic compounds that are
substances that come off the
interior panels of the car cost
of plastics and that affect a lot
to our health they have effects
neurotoxins are endocrine disruptors
and they can even become
carcinogenic
but going back to what happens in our
houses do not forget to tell you a very
important story in the 70s
the oil embargo happens and together
with the oil embargo a new
concern the energy saving
then to avoid possible losses
of energy ie cold or heat to
From this time on, the buildings
designed to be as watertight
possible then what happens the air
polluted that is generated that comes out of
these materials and that is generated inside
of our houses is trapped
inside and that is why it is spoken for
first time in history in the
problem in the problematic of the
indoor air quality
and good and today where we are there
many construction materials the
technology knowledge does not stop from
evolve we have even reached a
moment when there are already materials that
they have active properties
decontaminate the air or kill
bacteria that we represent it with these
green points
but nevertheless the problematic of the
Indoor air quality is maintained
then as you can see not all are
bad news and all this that I have
counted right now it can be summarized from
a very simple way because after a
process of three years of research
among other things obviously we have
realized a very simple thing that
is that all the materials of
construction of the planet can be
group in three boxes
are the inert materials that is to say
that do not give off anything or absorb anything
as for example the ceramic or almost
all stones
we have box number 2 which are the
materials that give off things that are
these substances that are not seen and do not
feel but that affect the air that
we breathe like for example some
pvc pavement paints even with
some woods this also happens
and there is box number 3 which are the
materials that absorb things absorb
things and transform them into other vouchers
the materials of box number 3 are
divided into two groups are the heroes and
there are the villains then the heroes
are those materials that capture these
air substances or bacteria that
we carry in our hands and
they transform something inert into something
innocuous as are for example materials
photocatalytic or copper that is a
Naturally bactericidal material is
say that it kills the bacteria
on the other side are the villains
then the villains are materials that
it’s wrong they also pick up these substances
but that transform them into something still
worst
as for example you know those models
old of the houses of our
grandmothers imagine a child
playing in one of these models and this
child sneezes the mucus that is
fall to the carpet that in the end are not
more than bacteria will stay there
accumulated and good and the effect
multiplier does not need to be explained
but the world of construction
currently does not go around here today
the construction materials are chosen
based on three factors their
benefits is to say this material I
it does or does not work for what I want the cost and
aesthetics what we have realized
is that we are missing a very important factor here
important that is the health factor
like many processes or almost all
research processes ours
started with a question that was we can
from the architecture help the process
of healing a patient
Well I would love to be able to say that the
architecture heals but it’s not like that without
doctors are doctors but what is
we can do from the architecture is to
through a careful choice of
building materials guarantee
optimal environmental quality and with this
facilitate the string process of a
patient and obviously not harm him
well the result of this equation is my
work and it’s called friend and martínez
what we do is I understand these
variables that give me information about
how materials affect the air
that we breathe as your emissions of
volatile organic compounds if they are
toxic in case of fire or its
chemical composition for example if yes
have these variables and I can
ponder because I can score
Building materials from 0 to 100
and I give you an example that surely
some of you will be familiar
how many of you are parents or mothers
half more or less of those who are
parents or mothers surely many of
you have lived the moment of
decorate the room of the first child and
choose the color of your walls true
if blue pink girl child if fijaros
that at no time your decision
is based on whether this painting can affect
to the health of our baby
90% of the time this kind of
decision is based exclusively on the
esthetic
good now that those who are parents
they want to leave and apologize to their
children, I give you a solution, imagine that
we have two types of paintings the painting
brand to mark paint see the two are
the only thing that changes is the
manufacturer then it paint
has a health level of 92 points and
the painting sees has a level of health of
52 points is to say it’s healthier
who sees what you’re going to put in the
room of your children
good this kind of information about
classification of materials
construction not only of paintings but of
all the materials that can be
apply indoors you can
consult freely in front and
dotcom materials and right now I
I think many of you will be
asking but i was
interesting if I’m neither an architect nor
I have no relationship with the industry
of the good construction that you know that
according to the epa that is the environmental agency
American the population group that you see
most affected by pollution in
Interior environments are babies and
small children pregnant women or
in lactation period and the elderly
curiously this is the group
population that usually spends more time
indoor
And besides, we’ve all been this baby
many of us will be mothers and we will all arrive
elderly
on the other hand they are recognized at the
today’s scientific problems
health and pathologies such as lipoatrophy
the sick building syndrome or the
sqm that is a pathology that has to
see with the sensitivity to agents
chemicals present inside the
intolerance to wi-fi networks or fields
electromagnetic good I speak to us
only health spoke also of
productivity there is a study that did
harvard in 2016 very interesting
which is that what it does is the relationship
between a field in a healthy environment
and productivity the improvement in the
cognitive response is of the order of
almost 300 percent when one works
in a healthy environment
good and now to finish and I see
the hypochondriacs passed out there at
final I give you a few
recommendations that I think you can
be useful to do with that
your houses are environments
truly healthy the first of
all economical and easy to apply
ventilate your houses regularly
minimum 15 minutes a day
another recommendation the ceramic always
it is a very good option is a material
inert, that is, it does not give off anything
absorbs nothing is quite economic very
Easy to clean and also super
resistant
If you have to choose an elective painting
paints with low emissions of
volatile organic compounds or
ideally with zero emissions this type
of information is found in the
paint containers and does not mean a
increase in costs such as buying milk
skimmed or semi-skimmed the same without
However, if you want to go to the
paintings you can choose a painting
photocatalytic which is a painting that
has the ability to decontaminate the
air when it has contact with light
natural is a process very similar to the
photosynthesis
If you have to buy wooden furniture
or are you thinking about changing your
flooring our floors by a floor
of wood a certified parquet that
They try hand-held woods , gas, forgiveness with
low formaldehyde emissions is the
way to guarantee that you are not
contaminating the inside of your
houses
another very important recommendation
benefits are often enemies
Of the health
what does he mean
the message is always to distrust a
material that has benefits that do not
They are your originals as per
example a wood that does not burn or a
stone that doubles what is done in
these cases is to impregnate the
materials with a chemical soup that
give the material these new
benefits but at the same time
are contributing to a contamination
of the indoor air
if you are not in the phase of reforming
our houses or our offices
no problem there is another advice
practical that I think is quite useful
in the year 89 the NASA did a study in
the one that identified the five plants
most suitable to pollute the air
previous good among them there are good
examples here we have the sword of san
jorge ‘the bamboo palm tree good and there
others to finish the last example
light bulbs ionizer air ace os what
I explain the air we breathe is
loaded with ions then the air from the
you remember that first photo
that I taught you about the mountain because the air
of the mountain is loaded with ions
negative which is what makes us feel
well when we breathe against the
City air is loaded with ions
positive then what do these
light bulbs is transforming the ions
positive in negative ions and they are not
very expensive
and good to finish I would like to
final all this that I have explained to you not
it’s more than having the knowledge
suitable for making choices
responsible and I would like to leave you with
this last message that is now that
you can choose health and thanks
[Applause]
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