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The frame and the walls are made of wood - a climate-positive building that stores carbon dioxide. It's a super insulated passive house. On the roof there are solar cells. 41 apartments in two buildings in a tenant-owners' society called "Brf Notuddsparken". On the ground floor there is a room for parking and washing of bicycles. The tenants have two electric transport bikes and two electric cars they share. Those two cars have parking places next to the two buildings - other cars have to use the multistory car park at the entrance to the neighborhood. The buildings will be environmentally classified.
Built: 2021. Builder: Bright Living AB, Alingsås. Architects: OkiDoki.
notuddsparken.se (website in Swedish)
and a roll up shade is also included to absorb winter heat and bring it inside, and in summer the glass skin can be opened to let the heat escape outside!
some parts have the added glass curtain wall to gain winter heat
also features what looks like a living wall plant trays, it looks like plants lived in these long trays..
(Swedish: ETC Torp) A house with a roof made of solar cells and a greenhouse towards south. The frame and the walls are made of wood - a climate-positive building that stores carbon dioxide. The foundation consists of foam glass, no concrete is used. It is so energy efficient that it can provide energy to at least one more house. The building is a show house and you can buy a house like that from the building company ETC Bygg.
Built: 2022.
One of the buildings in the ETC Solar Park in Katrineholm.
etcbygg.se/ett-klimatsmart-hus/ (website in Swedish)
The red house is typical for Sweden. The traditional red paint contains pigment from the copper-mine in Falun, Dalecarlia.
Indoor tile mosaic 'stream', cordwood wall, and hand-hewn beams from self-harvested timber at Rainbow Valley Farm
I love old farmhouse kitchens and I was scared that when we built our house that the kitchen wouldn't have any charm. Using stone and pieces of wood we found here and there and some very new wood we cut from our woods, we had the start of a room that felt "lived in" as we were building it.
I added the old wooden tables which I've had since I was a student in Glasgow, a few chairs that have been given to me over the years, a woodstove we bought second-hand and a few bits that have followed me around for years and the new house feels like home.
Home office.
The sliding glass doors open to an interior pocket courtyard filled with bamboo. The ceiling is recycled lumber. The door is built from recycled lumber from the demolition of parts of the old house, whose materials were re-used through-out the project.
Project Name: Red Box
Project Type: Addition and remodel to a house
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Designer: Jeremy Levine Design
A solar or bioclimatic house uses the natural patterns of the movement of the sun to enjoy its low rays in the winter. They heat the floor, the wooden furniture and the stone walls and we often don't have to use our stove - even in the heart of winter. The light is beautiful and very cheering. In the summer, the sun is high and the window shades are designed to keep the sun's rays out of the house and keep it cool. At times the temperatures here in South West France reach the 40s, the inside of our house has never been more than 23°c. Here's a video to show you what I mean : www.flickr.com/photos/hardworkinghippy/42015810650/in/alb...
solar panels and greenhouse gearing up for a sunny day. at minus 20C greenhouse climbs to +30 and heats the workshop - time to hang some hammocks
L'air frais provenant des plantes humides passe par la porte nord et traverse la maison jusqu'aux pièces de l'étage supérieur.
Unfortunately the potato vine Solanum jasminoides which normally provides us with shade in the summer has been cut down by the hard frost.
This Wisteria looks as though it may replace the potato vine nicely.
I posted the below version last week, but checked back in and got this take for a better view even on those south facing windows that must offer great passive solar gain. HWW!
It was cold yesterday. Like, not above 15ËšF all day cold.
Luckily, our sunporch has been better than awesome at lending a little bit of solar heat to get us through the cold snaps. It was 75Ëš in there by lunchtime. Sixty degrees warmer than the outside.... for FREE! Amazing.
Whenever there's a glut of fruit, meat, vegetables or mushrooms we conserve as much as we can. It's very nice having a good food stash when the shops are far away. For me this isn't really living frugally - as far as we're concerned - we're rich !
Project Name: Three Trees
Project Type: Addition and remodel to a house
Location: Eagle Rock, CA
Designer: Jeremy Levine Design
The entrance to the ETC Cottage (Swedish: ETC Torp) - you can pick a tomato when you pass. A house with a roof made of solar cells and a greenhouse towards south. The frame and the walls are made of wood - a climate-positive building that stores carbon dioxide. The foundation consists of foam glass, no concrete is used. It is so energy efficient that it can provide energy to at least one more house. The building is a show house and you can buy a house like that from the building company ETC Bygg.
Built: 2022.
One of the buildings in the ETC Solar Park in Katrineholm.
etcbygg.se/ett-klimatsmart-hus/ (website in Swedish)
The red house is typical for Sweden. The traditional red paint contains pigment from the copper-mine in Falun, Dalecarlia.
The front facade of mobile wood panels, encloses an existing tree to create a garden space.
Project Name: Three Trees
Project Type: Addition and remodel to a house
Location: Eagle Rock, CA
Designer: Jeremy Levine Design
We have lived in this home for ~40 years. The passive solar features include a I 1/2 story Trombe wall behind all that lower solar glass. Additional clerestory windows on the upper level provide for additional direct gain. The total glass area to floor-space area ratio is ~25%. We do have electric baseboard heaters (as required by UBC) but our accasional backup heat typically is by wood stove. Many government and private entities are now pushing for "Carbon Zero" homes by 2030. Most will attempt this by adding solar electric panels. Regarding heating, we have been achieving Carbon Zero for more than 40 years... without limited-lifetime electric panels!
IMG_7807; Southern Exposure Passive Solar
Project Name: Red Box
Project Type: Addition and remodel to a house
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Designer: Jeremy Levine Design
Tumbled Carrera marble tiles cover the walls in a brick like pattern. Bright orange Caesar Stone countertops wrap custom walnut vanity floating off the wall.
Project: Red Box
Description: A two story addition to an existing house utilizing passive and active green technology.
Location: Los Angeles
Designer: Jeremy Levine
Mobile sun shades control the Southern light and lower the solar gain.
Project Name: Red Box
Project Type: Addition and remodel to a house
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Designer: Jeremy Levine Design
Our house is orientated to let as much sun into the house in winter as possible. The sun heats the floor, the furniture and is a real tonic for the spirit on cold winter days.
Passive Solar Farm House: Keep it Simple and Let Nature Help You
Built by Thompson Custom Builders
James Kachadorian's Passive Solar House concept is as close to an 'open source' architectural strategy as any. Originally motivated by the oil crisis of the 70's, Kachadorian developed a technique for building new homes that incurred no additional construction costs, based on completely conventional materials, including concrete blocks and poured concrete. As the patents issued on this solar system expired, Kachadorian essentially turned these ideas over to the public, and wrote a book - 'The Passive Solar House' to 'make that gift more meaningful.' The home featured here is built upon the ideas found in this book, as well as direct consultation with Kachadorian himself.
This home consists of an existing farm house, almost every inch of which required total reconstruction with careful consideration paid to energy-efficient construction techniques and mechanical systems. The new addition extending south from this farm house was built using Kachadorian's passive solar slab technique.
Aesthetically, the intention was to build a home that fit well with the timeless rural character of this region, especially that of the existing farm house. We did so by extending consistent overall massing, roof lines, window types and siding material from the farm house to the addition. The two elements are unified by a central gathering/entry core.
Internally, the addition features an open 2-story central space with a wood stove that can radiate heat throughout all of the spaces in the addition. The tall chimney minimizes creosote build-up and gives the hot chimney pipe a chance to radiate as much heat as possible into the space. This open central space is flanked on either side by open second story loft spaces that look out over the living room. These lofts can be completely enclosed by a series of sliding doors reclaimed from the existing farm house. These open lofts also enable rising heat from the passive solar slab and wood stove to radiate throughout the entire space.
Internal 'thermo-shutters' are located on each of the south-facing windows in order to retain as much of the warmth absorbed during the cold winter days as possible. They also help keep the space cool in summer by blocking excessive solar gains. The size and shape of these windows were calculated based on Kachadorian's guidelines for optimal daylight admittance throughout the year. We kept north-facing windows to a minimum, and only installed them in areas that would help offset the need to use artificial lights, enabling further energy savings.
The home is currently fit with a solar domestic hot water system, with plans to augment the system with a photovoltaic installation in the future.
In all, this home is not only a model of energy efficiency and passive solar utilization, but fit well with the family's lifestyle, the architecture of the existing farm house, and the rural vernacular character of this region.
Tucson, Arizona USA
Milagro Cohousing
Facebook: www.facebook.com/milagrocohousing
photo by Cathy Mullan
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crescendodesign.com/homes22.html
Passive Solar Farm House: Keep it Simple and Let Nature Help You
Built by Thompson Custom Builders
James Kachadorian's Passive Solar House concept is as close to an 'open source' architectural strategy as any. Originally motivated by the oil crisis of the 70's, Kachadorian developed a technique for building new homes that incurred no additional construction costs, based on completely conventional materials, including concrete blocks and poured concrete. As the patents issued on this solar system expired, Kachadorian essentially turned these ideas over to the public, and wrote a book - 'The Passive Solar House' to 'make that gift more meaningful.' The home featured here is built upon the ideas found in this book, as well as direct consultation with Kachadorian himself.
This home consists of an existing farm house, almost every inch of which required total reconstruction with careful consideration paid to energy-efficient construction techniques and mechanical systems. The new addition extending south from this farm house was built using Kachadorian's passive solar slab technique.
Aesthetically, the intention was to build a home that fit well with the timeless rural character of this region, especially that of the existing farm house. We did so by extending consistent overall massing, roof lines, window types and siding material from the farm house to the addition. The two elements are unified by a central gathering/entry core.
Internally, the addition features an open 2-story central space with a wood stove that can radiate heat throughout all of the spaces in the addition. The tall chimney minimizes creosote build-up and gives the hot chimney pipe a chance to radiate as much heat as possible into the space. This open central space is flanked on either side by open second story loft spaces that look out over the living room. These lofts can be completely enclosed by a series of sliding doors reclaimed from the existing farm house. These open lofts also enable rising heat from the passive solar slab and wood stove to radiate throughout the entire space.
Internal 'thermo-shutters' are located on each of the south-facing windows in order to retain as much of the warmth absorbed during the cold winter days as possible. They also help keep the space cool in summer by blocking excessive solar gains. The size and shape of these windows were calculated based on Kachadorian's guidelines for optimal daylight admittance throughout the year. We kept north-facing windows to a minimum, and only installed them in areas that would help offset the need to use artificial lights, enabling further energy savings.
The home is currently fit with a solar domestic hot water system, with plans to augment the system with a photovoltaic installation in the future.
In all, this home is not only a model of energy efficiency and passive solar utilization, but fit well with the family's lifestyle, the architecture of the existing farm house, and the rural vernacular character of this region.