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Is anyone living in a passive solar home? Or is an architect?
spystyle:
Hello from Maine,
I am thinking of designing a funky passive solar home but I don't know anything about architecture.
I've got some data here :
http://www.greenbuildingtalk.com/Forums/tabid/53/forumid/14/postid/74546/view/topic/Default.aspx
In 1978 the US department of agriculture released plans for A-Frame cabins, they are really funky-cool. I was thinking of designing a small one with two bedrooms, and making it super insulated like "PassivHaus" and making it "passive solar" with "thermal mass" and "south facing windows".
The challenge is living in icy cold Maine, it gets terribly cold here in winter, with lots of snow, and very got in summer.
Also architects won't talk to me when they discover I am trying to design this on a shoe-string budget.
So I haven't found a good forum to discuss this stuff...
Do any of you guys live in passive solar homes? Or are architects that have an interest in designing one?
Thanks :)
Craig
RayB:
As a cottage, or a home? Cuz people laugh at those houses when they drive by. ;-)
spystyle:
Well I was thinking of a home that is small but livable, like a two bedroom apartment.
Technically it is a cabin design, but I'm planning it as a small country home.
And who would laugh at an A-Frame? They are funky cool !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-Frame_house
http://www.andrewgeller.net/bio.html
http://tinyurl.com/yzkg3lf
It's a smart design in many ways, especially for places that get a lot of snow.
And it's as retro cool as an Atari 2600 :)
You should see the other crazy designs by it's inventor Andrew Geller :
spystyle:
And check out how funky this 1977 passive solar house is :
It's the "Saskatchewan Conservation House"
http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/energy-efficient_houses.html
That really looks like an Atari 2600 :
drventure:
That's great! I love that style of architecture.
I've really been interested in Monolithic domes, one big company in the biz is pretty close by
http://www.monolithic.com/
My main problem with them is VERY few people actually finish them out nicely. Seems like they all just leave the airform on and it ends up looking like crap.
I mean, that's a photo of the MODEL homes this company has! Yikes!
There are a +few+ instances floating around where architects have really done them nicely, but they are few and far between.
But after reading about the benefits, they sure sound good.
And what's really weird is from the outside, even the big ones look positively tiny.
But, you go inside, and even the smallest ones seem HUGE. Very odd illusion with those things...
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