A passive and active solar home within a sustainable subdivision, complete with community-shared solar power, hot water and swale wetlands.
A passive and active solar home within a sustainable subdivision, complete with community-shared solar power, hot water and swale wetlands.
Two single hipped roofed pavilions nestle among a wetland of national importance and surrounded by fruit and nut trees. The two pavilions are bridged by an outdoor loggia and entry space.
Another hillside house with a view to die for. The water views are expansive, and the hills of Plimmerton and Pukerua Bay are an equal treat.
A derelict building has made way for a new townhouse that planners agree will fit the neighbourhood well.
Square pegs can’t go into a round hole – but with clever design, they can seamlessly fit a triangular plot.
Commanding views over Tawa and Porirua also come with raging wind and all day sun – perfect for maximising renewable energy.
The Wright family were willing participants – guinea pigs- in the active solar house experiment that has been their home since 2001.
The client’s desire for both floors of this Auckland house to receive passive solar gain through a two-storey glazed facade was solved with an excavated north-facing courtyard.
The owners purchased this hilltop site overlooking Tutukaka with a view to operating a day spa, below a stealthy, healthy modern family home.
Prime views and idea microclimates are frequent contradictions and none more so than in the story of this Khandallah house.
A commercial walnut orchard in Whanganui provides the setting for this unpretentious rural home.
Greenaway Gardens is an environmentally inspired subdivision that offers community members a rewarding relationship with nature.
Dunstan Halt was designed to be seen in the expansive Central Otago landscape but not intrude upon it.
This country house sits on top of a sharp ridge on 16 hectares of retired pastureland, with views over the Waikanae River.
This heavily insulated house is the second to be completed at Greenaway Gardens and demonstrates the flexibility of active solar design.