Passive House Standard Eco-House, Currie
Client: Private
Value: £300k
Date: September 2011
Value: £300k
Date: September 2011
This Passiv-haus standard, low-energy Eco-house, with a super-insulated, and super-airtight, external building envelope, lies on a beautiful, steeply sloping and heavily wooded site, adjacent to the Water of Leith in Currie.
The house is: - An embodiment of the client's strong personal commitment to sustainability - Fully accessible (the client is eighty years old) - Flexible in how it can be used - Carefully integrated into the existing built and natural context (i.e. Currie Conservation Area). - Carefully designed to capture the sun's warmth, and any heat generated internally, using the integrated Mechanical Ventilation & Heat Recovery (MVHR) system, avoiding the need for a conventional heating system entirely. The grid connected PV system also supplies the bulk of the annual electricity requirement. With: Simpson & Brown Architects |
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