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Home Where House Project No. 2 "2006 - 2009"
"Garage Mahal" Lois Lane White Gum Valley Fremantle Australia
The Environmental Features Of The Property:
Passive solar design** architecture:
East - West orientation;
Maximum glazing north façade;
Minimum glazing to eastern, western and southern facades;
Optimal openings for cross ventilation including full height louvred windows on west side and large centraly pivoting windows around kitchen with stunning views over the valley;
High levels of wall and roof insulation;
Concrete floors for internal thermal mass for diurnal temperature stabilization;
Protective Virginia Creeper Greenwall*** on north and west facades on heavy duty galvanised steel cyclone mesh carried on a heavy duty galvanized steel frame provides shade and protection from the summer heat and being deciduous allows the winter sunshine to penetrate for winter heat.
Skillion roof design at 5 degree pitch made from 250mm Bondor structural panels.
Greywater collection and subterranean irrigation system.
Rainwater collection gutters and downpipes to elevated pads ready for storage tanks.
Vegetable garden area on north side with full year round solar access excavated 600 deep, lain with perforated ag. pipe for stormwater harvesting and filled with highest quality organic mineralised soil. (The vegetable garden is currently booming.)
** For more on Passive Solar Design principles see Wikipedia: 'Passive Solar Design.'
*** For more information on Vertical Greenwall design and practice see the
web-site of Patrick Blanc.