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Motueka West Bank House, Nelson
Notes: A narrow site pushed the design towards a clearstory roof to get winter sun into back bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen, while the client liked curved roofs. Two feature timber "bents" provide most of the structure inside and to verandah. Lots of timber and light inside, this passive solar design. (See Process where this house is used as an example of moving from sketch plan through to finished house) |
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Modernist House, Nelson
Notes: Clients wanted a modernist house that was still a passive solar design with solar power, grey water recycling, rainwater tanks: Sustainable Design doesn't have to have a particular look. So here as well as insulated floor slabs to store heat, there is a Trombe wall to store winter daytime heat for the night on a Northern wall where there is no view. In this case it is lined in bare steel as a feature: it radiates stored heat into the room in the evening but doubles as a magnetic "pinboard" for picture displays. |
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Our House Nelson
Notes: Architects are often reluctant to show their own houses for fear that people will think that is all they do, but hopefully from other examples here you will see houses completely different to this. Its an adobe (mud brick) house made from bricks made from earth on site with the only addition being chopped straw. It has an independent power system (solar, wind and hydro), a composting toilet to capture fertility from bodily wastes and minimise water use, a grey water system including a urinal flushed by the handbasin that is used to water the orchard below the house and rainwater water supply. |
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