Living Room 2015

Living Room

Come and visit our passive designed home that has been orientated for maximum solar gain, capture favourable breezes and can be easily opened or closed depending on the weather. The house also has a green roof!

Other features include:

Materials

• Concrete
• Concrete Block
• Tile
• Recycled hardwood
• Recycled copper
• Recycled pallets
• Recycled plumbing fixtures
• Recycled steel mesh
• Recycled concrete
• Recycled glass bottle tops as wall light plugs
• Recycled cast iron toilet cisterns as rain heads
• Recycled steel cabinet handles
• Core ten steel
• Plate steel
• Twin wall roof
• Nafray grass, bedims, native bees, orchids, succulents, vines, sir walter grass

Flooring

• Concrete
• 20mm hand seeded quartz
• Polished with satin finish

Insulation

• Concrete walls
• Concrete roof
• Green roof with grasses
• Concrete floor
• Tinted and ozoned glass
• Deciduous plantings

Glazing

• Tinted and ozoned glass

Heating and Cooling

• Passive heating
• Deciduous plantings
• Green roof
• Passive cooling
• Open fire place

Hot water system

• Rinnai infinity

Water tanks

• 3 x 2500ltrs
• 1 x 2500ltrs roof water recycle facility for green roof and toilet

Lighting

• Dimmable led lighting
• Glass skylight

Energy collection and use

• Passive heating
• Passive cooling
• Recycled water
• Solar from existing house roof