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chookie wrote - was: FYI- water crisis story link:
g'day jen,
i'll hark back to the need to thinbk ourside the square, it would be all too easy if climates were stat' but we have hot and cold and everything in between etc.,. but a properly thought out design can take the edge of both extremes, to the degeree that if you build to get the absolute best in one extreme because that is the one you get more of then the other extreme will be more manageable. in the desert like copper pedi take the example. in every climate if you build undergraound then the home would have stable all year round temperatures. i still say the designs that we are indoctrinated with are not working anywhere in australia, they may fare better for folk who by accident bought one on the right aspect, and it is aspects which give us our micro climates so that is what we are about with our eco' home design we had. didn't matter if it was 38 outside in the sun or -10 on the ground on a winters morning we were comfortable without wasting extra resources. but then we ahd more stable climate conditions ie.,. no extremes form either end of the scale. even this macmansion that we have in the 'burbs now only needs some passive cooling and a few strategicaly planted plants, we need no heating in the winter because the home is orientated not too badly on the block. and the aspect of the block isn't as bad as most. we had a home similar situation near the bay and we needed fans in all rooms all summer and heating in the winter, the results of the wrong aspect and no consideration by the builder to orientation of the home on the block, though it wouldn't have helped much as the aspect was hopeless as is the aspect of roughly 70% of all homes. On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:20:38 GMT, "Jen" wrote: "gardenlen" wrote in message .. . snipped With peace and brightest of blessings, len -- "Be Content With What You Have And May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In A World That You May Not Understand." http://www.lensgarden.com.au/ |
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