Passive House Standard Eco-House, Currie

Client:                Private
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