January 27th, 2010 at 12:46 pm by Melanie Mullen

The First Priority in sustainable eco-design is passive design; where you can you your surrounding environment wisely to conserve or create energy and lighting and more. More important than LEED and Energy Star is the building standard Passivhaus

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Sexy Mountain Hut in Austria heated by body heat, cooking heat and passive solar heat !

The ventilation system is with heat recovery from the ground heat exchanger.

With intelligent design; heavy heavy insulation (R60 walls min) and triple pane double low-e glazing windows you can maintain a warm interior temperature with no energy use at all- you can also play with the lighting so you would never need to really turn on a light.

2 Responses to “Passive Design- dedicated to Krista Palen”

  1. natalie says:

    wicked! do you know of any houses in canada?

  2. Krista Palen says:

    stop it…. it’s too lovely.

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