Biohome, Bioenergy, Bioecology

These are words that are increasingly common and have now become a part of our daily vocabulary and the collective universe. They are concepts that currently occupy the worldwide interest of both institutions and the final consumer and are reflected in the Bio-architecture and Green Housing sectors, in alternative materials and benefits with which to achieve livable environments.
Great attention being paid to the environment, health, air, soil, and energy and the home is a symptom of a precise interest: Man is, once again the center of the universe, the keystone, the starting point for every branch of study; the human being with all its moral, aesthetic, psychological and physical needs. In fact, architectural styles have complied with the demands made by man over time. At one time, for example, the farmhouse was constructed with a horizontal facade, as opposed to the modern vertical form, and was designed and constructed on natural stones. It was the ideal space for man and his thoughts, his experience, his relationship with emotion. Food was biological par excellence since humans cultivated food on their own land.
The balance of time and life were determined by the passing seasons, by experiencing daily emotions within the natural stones of the home. An absolutely natural space in which man harmonized his own psycho-emotional balances. Psychosis and stress were certainly not known diseases, just as figures such as psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrists emerged only after the industrial revolution to analyze and fulfill those needs for authenticity and naturalness which were lost in the rhythms of the assembly lines of the open office. Architectural beauty was replaced with the requirements of the construction site; the ancient Cathedrals, bearers of historical memory and the literature of life, made way for a show of cement, the new expression of the historicity of the third millennium. So how can we recover that naturalness, that balance between living and dwelling, which now seems so compromised? One of the answers is by choosing bio for the places in which we breathe, sleep, eat, work and in which we raise our children. Specifically, it means choosing bio materials, bio stone for our environments, like Kerma’s Biopietra, usable in our kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, in the outside areas of our homes. Man, to live well, needs naturalness: in his own rhythms, the food he eats, in the materials and stones of his house, able to ensure acoustic-thermal-solar protection.

Man lives within a system consisting of four layers of skin: the first layer is the dermis, which protects our body from the outside world. The second layer is clothing, which protects the dermis. The third layer is our house, the habitat that surrounds us, eases us and protects us from the outside word. The fourth layer is the environment, which starts exactly where our house ends and where we begin: it is the earth, the sun, the air we breathe.