Unity solution
Primarily responding to:
- Commitment to environmental issues
- Connection to outdoors
- Responsible water use
- Powered by renewable energy
Key Considerations
- Programming
- Relationship to outside spaces
- Heating, cooling and lighting loads
- Electricity and thermal energy generation
- Water collection and disposal
- Accessible “green” features for demo’s
Programming
Living-dining area First Floor
Master bedroom
Studies/guest rooms
Bathrooms
Entry and stairs with balcony
Kitchen
Second Floor
Washer/dryer, thermal storage
Batteries and PV controls
Open to below
Programming
First floor Second floor
Relationship to outside spaces
Patio
Living machine
Deck
Woods
Woodman’s field
Pedestrians Campus and pond Cars
Relationship to outside spaces
Woods
Woodman’s field
Pedestrians Campus and pond Cars
Heating, Cooling and Lighting
- Window placement, sizing
- Heavily insulated panels
- Seasonal shading
- Advanced west-facing fenestration
system
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Advanced West-facing fenestration system
Automated vertical blinds Exterior insulation
Integrated controls
- Luxmeter
Operable windows
- Temperature sensors
- Override switch
Electricity and thermal energy generation
- 475 sqft of photovoltaics with batteries
- 40 evacuated glass tube solar collectors and hot water storage
Water collection and disposal
- Green roof collects stormwater
- Water features double as storage
- Deck pool fills greywater tank below
- Living machine filters wastewater
Living machine
Collection and storage
Accessible “green” features for demonstrations
- Thermal collectors at ground level
- Porch provides access to PVs and water collection
- Living machine in public view
For next time
Summer and winter conditions
Public/private functions
Focus on innovative system
Spectral, angularly selective fenestration?
Beyond engineering solutions… “poetry”