Eco Houses

ECOHOUSE:
A DESIGN GUIDE
Sue Roaf, Manuel Fuentes, Stephanie Thomas

Architectural Press
OXFORD AUCKLAND BOSTON JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI

Architectural Press An imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 225 Wildwood Avenue, Woburn, MA 01801-2041 A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd A member of Reed Elsevier plc groupFirst published 2001 Sue Roaf 2001
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designsand Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1P 0LP. Applications for the copyright holder’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publishers

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Roaf, Sue Ecohouse – a design guide 1. Architecture –Environmental aspects I. Title 720.4'7 Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Roaf, Sue Ecohouse – a design guide/Sue Roaf, Manuel Fentes, Stephanie Thomas p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. House construction. 2. Green products. 3. Sustainable development. 4. Architecture and society. 5. Dwellings – Energy conservation. 6. Housing and health. 7. Construction industry –Appropriate technology. I. Title: Ecohouse. II. Fuentes, Manuel. III. Thomas, Stephanie. IV. Title. TH4812 R63 2001 690'.837–dc21 2001018177 ISBN 0 7506 4904 6

Composition by Scribe Design, Gillingham, Kent

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements Introduction to the Ecohouse Design Guide 1 The form of the house: the building as an analogy 2 The environmental impact of building materials Andre Viljoenand Katrin Bohn 3 Detailing the envelope 4 Building-in soul Christopher Day 5 Ventilation 6 Health and happiness in the home 7 Passive solar design 8 Photovoltaics 9 Solar hot water systems 10 Using water wisely Case study introduction: towards the new vernacular

vii 1 15 38 63 85 95 123 148 165 200 216 239

Owner
1 Sue Roaf 2 Inglis & Goudsmit 3 Økologiske Hus AS, Norges Forskningstråd,statens Forurensningstilsyn 4 Krister Wiberg 5 Dr and Mrs Ramlal Syounai Mr and Mrs I. Sagara Jimmy Lim Ministry of Construction, Indonesia 10 F. and F. Riedweg 11 Graham Duncan 6 7 8 9

Place
Oxford Findhorn Marnardal

Country
UK Scotland Norway

Designer/Architect/Team
Sue Roaf and David Woods Johan Vorster Bjørn Berge, Gaia, Lista AS 242 246 251

Lund Hyderabad Hamamatsu Inagi KualaLumpur Surabaya Townsville Waiheke Island

Sweden India Japan Tokyo, Japan Malaysia Indonesia Australia New Zealand

Krister Wiberg Prashant Kapoor, Saleem Akhtar, Arun Prasad, Manuel Fuentes OM Solar Ken-ichi Kimura, Mr H Matsuoka Jimmy Lim, CSL Associates Prof. Silas, Dr Y Kodama Felix Riedweg Graham Duncan

254 256 262 266 268 272 275 279

iv

Contents

Owner
12 Ashok and Rajiv Lall13 M. L. Bidani 14 Isaac Meir 15 Manuel Fuentes and Ana Lopez 16 David Morrison and Susan Parson 17 Jose Roberto Garcia-Chavez 18 Richard Levine 19 Charles Middleton 20 Christopher Day 21 David Johnson Glossary References Conversion Factors Index

Place
Delhi Delhi Negev Desert Highlands Bariloche Oyster Pond Mexico City Lexington, KT Gravenhurst, Ontario Pembrokeshire Monmouth

Country
IndiaIndia Israel Argentina St Maarten Mexico USA Canada Wales Wales

Designer/Architect/Team
Ashok Lall Architects Arvind Krishan Isaac Meir Manuel Fuentes David Morrison Associates Jose Roberto Garcia-Chavez Richard Levine Charles Middleton Christopher Day Andrew Yeats, Matthew Hill, Steve Wade 282 288 291 296 303 308 313 317 321 325 328 336 343 345

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The authors would...