Architecture and Home Design

The house is located on a spectacular site overlooking the Solway Firth. The site is a steeply sloping, former quarry in a National Scenic Area. Designed by Simon Winstanely Architects.The house has been future proofed with the following low energy features;

1. The external walls, floor and roof are insulated to a high standard and air infiltration is minimized.
2. Triple glazed windows with warm edge spacer bars, thermally broken frames and inert gas filled to achieve a whole window u-value of 0.7W/m2K.
3. Heat pump using a borehole as the ground source for the underfloor heating and hot water system with a closed combustion wood-burning stove as back up.
4. Micro generation of renewable electricity using roof mounted Photovoltaic Panels.
5. Whole house heat recovery ventilation system.

Deepstone, Contemporary Low Energy Home by Simon Winstanely Architects (more…)

David Jay Weiner Architect design this house for Yokum Pond Residence. Designed in three level house with firs level floor lower than land. At front upstairs connect to second floor. At the second floor clear glass window is attached on front and both side wall, allow sun light to lighting on daytime, reduce energy consumption for light. Wood, glass, and other materials is chosen to used in design. I think using friendly materials in designing this house is suitable for reduce global warming, how about your opinion,,, for detail visit Yokum Pond Residence by David Jay Weiner Architect.

Yokum Pond Residence Design by David Jay Weiner Architect

Yokum Pond Residence Design by David Jay Weiner Architect
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The Leura House is designed by James Stockwell Architect. The materials are limited in number and low embodied energy. The ‘rammed sandstone’ walls are crushed sandstone with 10% cement compacted into forms with chips of iron stone and quartz. The Leura house is sketched out in sedimentary compressed sandstone walls. It uses a Japanese method called ‘discontinuous unity’ brought to light in the 1940’s by Japanese architects Yoshizaka and Sakakura for the incomplete separation of spaces from one another. The house produces its own power and water. 20 PV panels producing .5kw each/day in Leura are installed and a 100,000lt water tank is built under the bedroom wing. The garden and landscape are most important so the journey along the edges of the building permit varying places to experience the mountain valley.

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Modern Minimalist Greenhouse was designed by Verdickt & Verdickt Architects. Shaped and designed like an industry greenhouse, the design architects Verdickt & Verdickt features exposed steel supports, the windows are wide apart and a barn-shaped A-frame configuration of the very visible from the outside . Once inside, however, modern furniture, clean lines and white walls and ceilings contrast with floors and black granite countertops all give this look an elegant and minimalist.

Design principles emissions are increasingly integrated strategies for solar heating, heat from the sun through the windows drawn and then trapped in the expanding super-insulated interior. This particular building emissions also references to his aesthetic inspiration, with glass on all sides selectively reviewed by the inner layers, where confidentiality is desired. [ Via ]

Green House Design by Berg Design Architectsstructure. Dynamic modern lines and contrasting contemporary materials that make a statement rather than against its natural environment. (more…)