The Anchorage Strawbale House
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House Notes – The Anchorage Strawbale House
A delightful and comfortable strawbale house designed to take advantage of the sun, including:
- Strawbale construction with lime render inside and out
- Passive solar design
- Internal brick walls for extra thermal mass
- Masonry wood heater built into staircase for passive thermal mass
- Double-glazed windows constructed from recycled toughened glass doors
- Polished concrete floors
- Post and beams from on-site timbers
- Recycled local timber
- Tank water and mains connectivity
- Solar/gas hot water
- Native garden and grasses
- Solar electricity
SUSTAINABILITY FEATURES
- Energy efficiency:
- Efficient lighting
- Passive heating cooling:
- Passive solar designed home
Shading
Thermal mass
- Active heating cooling:
- Ceiling fans
- Active heating cooling:
- Masonry wood heater
- Water heating:
- Solar hot water (evacuated tube)
- Water harvesting and saving features:
- Above ground rainwater storage
Low flow shower heads
- Storage connected to
- Whole house
- Energy Efficient Lighting
- LED lights throughout
- Window Protection:
- Adjustable Shading
- Recycled and reused materials:
- Basins/sinks
Bathroom cabinets
Doors
Glass
Light fixtures
Timber
Windows
- Insulation Type:
- Under-roof
External walls
Floor
- Floor Type:
- Bulk - polystyrene board
- Floor Rating:
- R1.0
- Under Roof Insulation Type:
- Bulk – polystyrene board
- Under Roof Insulation Rating:
- R2.5
- External Walls Rating:
- R6.0
- External Walls Type:
- Straw (stawbale walls)
- All-Electric Home?
- No
- Total cost of home when constructed:
- $250,000
- Estimate of annual savings:
- $3000
- House Size
- 190m2
- BAL Rating
- BAL – 29: Increasing levels of ember attack and ignition of debris with a heat flux of up to 29kW/m2
- Roof
- Metal (Colorbond)
- Wall Materials
- Concrete blocks
Strawbale
- Window and Door Types
- Double glazing
- Number of bedrooms
- 4
- Number of bathrooms
- 2
- Garden / Outdoors
- Chickens
Composting
Edible garden
Native plants
Water wise plants
- Healthy home features
- Lime render/wash
- Housing Type:
- Standalone House
- Project Type:
- New Build
- Builder
- Paul Cook
- Designer
- Paul Cook
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