Brgm. Médiaterre - toute l'actualité du développement durable en langue française. Développement durable et entreprise: le portail Sequovia de la RSE. ENERGIE VERTE: énergie renouvelable. A Low Impact Woodland Home. Sustainable Architecture: Solar Design. PLANS Chez Soleil Paul Breaux, Designer This is a 3 bedroom, 2 story, 3000 sf house, with attached garage.
The design goals were to build a resource efficient, off-the-grid solar home, with no connected public utilities other than a phone line, and to use the home to generate performance data that would document how well the home's design and materials performed to keep the house cool in summer and warm in winter. According to Paul Breaux, a physicist, Chez Soleil performs much better than he expected. The home's temperature is comfortable year round, there is little home maintenance and operating expense, and the many people who tour the home can see and feel the benefits of "green" construction.Very little artificial lighting is needed during the day; natural light is plentiful on both the first and second floors due to window placement and open floor design. Stored solar heat is released from the water containers as needed. Hut. The Hut I had a make-shift tipi down the hill behind our house that I used as a retreat until Hurricane Ivan blew it down.
I had been reading about earthbag construction and wanted to see if I could use sand bags to replace the tipi. $50 and Up Underground House Book – Underground Housing and Shelter. Being Somewhere - Low Impact Living. Au coeur de la science avec Futura-Sciences. Portail - Annuaire : développement durable, écologie, commerce équitable, Bio, économie sociale et solidaire. Earthbag Building Index. Earthbag Building Blog.