This project proposes 3 detached sustainable homes on a laneway. The site is currently occupied by storage buildings. Each of these cottage like homes has a carport, 3 bedrooms on the ground floor, rear garden, double height living spaces and walk out terrace.
Sustainable design objectives are achieved through a variety of complimentary strategies. At the urban design scale building on an underused laneway property intensifies the city and increases density without incurring additional infrastructural cost or triggering a larger urban footprint. The homes are highly insulated and incorporate passive solar heating thermal storage and solar domestic hot water systems. The double height living spaces set up natural convection cooling. Trellises and screens block summer sun and help to keep the interior cool during the summer. The low winter sun is allowed in under these sun breaks to provide a natural radiant heat source for capture by the thermal mass of the floor and to offset heating requirements. |
