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Architectural Design

We pride ourselves on producing homes that meet all of your needs in terms of comfort and style, while at the same time incorporating the principles of sustainability to help address all of our future global needs.

Passive design is design that does not require mechanical heating or cooling.  Homes that are passively designed, take advantage of natural energy flows to maintain thermal comfort. This significantly improves comfort as well as reducing or eliminating heating and cooling bills. Most importantly it also reduces greenhouse gas emissions from heating, cooling, mechanical ventilation and lighting.

Passive Design

Passive design is design that does not require mechanical heating or cooling.  Homes that are passively designed, take advantage of natural energy flows to maintain thermal comfort. This significantly improves comfort as well as reducing or eliminating heating and cooling bills. Most importantly it also reduces greenhouse gas emissions from heating, cooling, mechanical ventilation and lighting.

Passive Cooling

Passive cooling can improve the efficiency of the building envelope by minimising heat gain from the external environment and facilitating heat loss. Passive cooling can be achieved by incorporating the following aspects into the home design:

  • Air movement
  • Cooling breezes
  • Evaporation
  • Earth coupling

The building envelope can be used to integrated these passive cooling options through:

  • Use windows to designed to deflect breezes from varying angles
  • Locate windows on walls with best exposure to common cooling breezes and
  • Design for effective cross flow of air through the building
  • Locating water features within close proximity to windows which receive cooling breezes
  • Using concrete floor slab construction.

In conjunction with passive cooling principles, active cooling options, such as ceiling fans, can greatly improve the effect of cross ventilation, and air movement in the home.

Orientation

With good orientation the need for additional heating and cooling can be reduced, resulting in lower energy bills and reducing greenhouse emissions.

Each site should be assessed to determine the best orientation for a new home based on the local climatic and regional conditions. When renovating an existing home, you may be able to maximise the site's potential by considering the best possible orientation for new living areas.

Where ideal orientation is not possible, as is often the case in higher density urban areas, an energy efficient home can still be achieved with careful attention to design and room selection.

Orientation for passive heating is about using the sun as a source of free home heating. Put simply, it involves letting winter sun in and keeping unwanted summer sun out. This can be done with relative ease on northern elevations by using shading devices to exclude high angle summer sun and admit low angle winter sun.

Regardless of the orientation of the block, adjoining buildings, trees and other structures can have an impact on the possible solar access to a home. Before you begin building, you should look at all of these issues, and work towards maximising the passive solar access for the home.

We believe in the theory of... designing homes with the future in mind!

'As a developer, we believe that it is our duty to take the GreenSmart initiative for you!'