Leichhardt knock down rebuild new house 2017

House Notes – Leichhardt knock down rebuild new house

The house has been designed by Caroline Pidcock and Associates

The brief was an eco-friendly, 3 bedroom house in keeping with the area, with bedrooms at the back of the house.

The house is designed using passive solar principles, with lots of cross flow ventilation, wide overhanging roofs made of a light colour to reflect the heat and to shade summer sun and allowing winter solar access The floor is polished concrete which will store heat for thermal mass and keep the house a constant temperature. The windows are recycled timber to act as a thermal break with double glazed to cut down on aircraft noise and keep the heat in and out.

Hardwood Timber framing was dismantled and stored off site and has been reused for trims, front fence, banister rails and decks. The soft wood was used for the privacy screens and in the construction of the house.

• 3kw of photovoltaics producing power to the grid
• 22 tube solar tube hot water system in to a 250L storage tank with natural gas back up
• Under floor heating on the ground floor is heated by a separate 30 solar tube panel and / or a Sedan heat pump.
• Rain Water is recycled for use in laundry and toilets

The house is a reversed Brick timber frame, built on a Concrete slab on ground.

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