Tag: Passive House - Page 3
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In the UK, Even Boathouses Are Passivhaus
In North America, Passivhaus or Passive House designs are still rare; in Europe, it is becoming the new standard. Most buildings built to the standard are residential, but at King's School in Worcester, Associated Architects are
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More on Measuring Energy In Green Building: Absolute vs Relative
Defining green building is not easy; for many, all that matters is energy consumption. One of the major ways of reducing consumption is to increase the amount of insulation, but that is only one component,
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Ultra-Urban Passive House Built in New York City
There are fundamentally two different ways of dealing with energy and buildings: Supply and demand. the supply approach attacks the problem with solar panels, heat pumps and tech; the demand approach is the Passivhaus
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Swedish 'Thermos' House Offers Low-Emission Life
Swedes are greener...they recycle more, live in smaller apartments, drive less and bike more than the average American. And now Volvo, A-hus, and the (definitely not green) utility Vattenfall are offering a lucky
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Amsterdam Townhouse Has All The Green Gizmos But Is Gorgeous Too
photos by I See For You / Föllmi Photography via DailyTonic Suzanne Labarre at CoDesign is "smitten" with FARO Architecten's Woonhuis Weijnen 2.0, a townhouse near Amsterdam. No wonder; it is one of those rare combinations of true green and great
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"Traditional" Design Meets Passive House Efficiency In Oregon
Most Passivhaus or Passive House designs we have shown on TreeHugger have tended to be modern, but Sarah Evans and Stuart Rue tell Green Building Advisor that "We wanted our house to fit in with the surrounding
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Bamboo Screens Shade Stunning French Passivhaus
One of the key elements of Passivhaus design has been the use of generous south-facing glazing for passive solar gain. That's great in winter, but you can have too much of a good thing in summer. Some designers install trellises and bris de soleil to
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Passivhaus: Too Rigid and Inflexible for America?
TreeHugger has written Forget Energy Star and LEED, The Real Standard for Green Building is Passivhaus, generally having nothing but good things to say about it. But Alex Wilson, who has been writing about green
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Passivhaus Comes To California, Shattering Stereotypes
TreeHugger has written Forget Energy Star and LEED, The Real Green Building Standard is Passivhaus.. Most of the ones we have shown are in cooler, more northern climates, and most are small and
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Architects Could Learn A Lot From Termites
If only human architects could build so well. Philip Ball in the New Scientist describes how green and sophisticated it is:Its buttressed towers are built entirely from natural, biodegradable materials. Its inhabitants live
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A PassivHaus Renovation: Heritage Meets Energy Efficiency
In the UK and North America, heritage buildings are under serious threat; our history is being bulldozed under the false mantra of energy efficiency when in fact, most buildings can be insulated, sealed and brought up to a much higher standard without
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Forget LEED and Energy Star, the Real Green Building Standard is Passivhaus (Slideshow)
There are a lot of architects using passive design, but when it comes to building a truly green, healthy house, there is nothing on earth like the Passivhaus. Through careful design, quality windows and a huge amount of insulation, these houses need
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"Eco-Estate" Rises Next To Vienna's Gasometers
TreeHugger previously noted the conversion of gas storage tanks built in 1896 into housing by some of Europe's best architects; Now, right next door, Albert Wimmer Architects is has built an
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Good Green Design Doesn't Have To Be Expensive: The M&M; House
I have not paid nearly enough attention to the work of Postgreen, the Philadelphia developers of economical and very interesting houses. Preston at Jetson Green nailed their 100K House as "the perfect trifecta of elements
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Passive Design Goes Mainstream With The "Marken Passive LEED® Platinum Home"
It is exciting to see Passive House design come to North America; it makes so much sense to design a house so that it doesn't need a lot of technology to keep warm or cool, just careful design and siting, lots of insulation
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Brooklyn Cohousing Project to be Designed on Passivhaus Principles
Can this be? Two of my favourite concepts in one building? In an urban setting like Brooklyn, yet. Cohousing is based on the idea of "intentional neighbourhoods" where people consciously commit to living as a community. Or as Meaghan wrote in our first
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Aktivhaus Generates More Heat and Power Than It Needs
We love the Passivhaus, or Passive House as it is known in America, where houses are designed to be so well insulated and sited that they need no energy other than passive solar gain to keep warm. But it can be limiting; all the windows face south and
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Passive Design and Passive House Mean Two Different Things
Cliff Kuang does a terrific job covering design at Fast Company, but may be leading his readers a bit astray with his post What Exactly Is a "Passive House" and Why Should I Care? He covers a stunning house by Paul
