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2. Ecohouse - Wikipedia

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   Living in the house also generates heat. Active human beings can produce as much heat as a one bar electric fire. Add to this heat from cooking, washing, lights etc. and you can begin to see how an eco-house could get too hot. Conventionally opening the windows reduces heat, but an eco-house design could include heat recovery ventilation ...

3. Organic architecture - Wikipedia

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   The Mushroom - a wood house in the forest (2020): Located in a misty pine forest, the architects used a commission for a modest hotel to experiment with novel natural-architecture interactions. The end result was two simple volumes in the shape of a mushroom stem and cap. [9] The House of Three Trees (2018) [10] Breakwater (2019) [11]

4. Green home - Wikipedia

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   A green home is a type of house designed to be environmentally sustainable. Green homes focus on the efficient use of " energy , water , and building materials ". [ 1 ] A green home may use sustainably sourced, environmentally friendly, and/or recycled building materials.

5. Green building - Wikipedia

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   Also, with the proper synergistic design, individual green building technologies may work together to produce a greater cumulative effect. On the aesthetic side of green architecture or sustainable design is the philosophy of designing a building that is in harmony with the natural features and resources surrounding the site. There are several ...

6. Double envelope house - Wikipedia

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   A double envelope house is a passive solar house design which collects solar energy in a solarium and passively allows the warm air to circulate around the house between two sets of walls, a double building envelope. This design is from 1975 by Lee Porter Butler in the United States.

7. Sustainable design - Wikipedia

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   Environmentally sustainable design (also called environmentally conscious design, eco-design, etc.) is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of ecological sustainability and also aimed at improving the health and comfort of occupants in a building.