Solar House

This is Nice

Thanks, sir!

For bathrooms if you have all the fixtures along one wall you're going to save the plumber a lot of work.

Awesome model! Incidentally, in your description, you may want to correct "corrigated" to ""corrugated" (not with an "i" but with a "u").

Thank you. You're right, my mistake. However, there has been an apparent 'error' and it won't let me save my change.

This is a perfect house! I love this. You have incorporated many elements that I have been searching for in a house plan. How can I thank you?

I'll accept this as a thanks and allow me to say you're welcome.

Now that's what I call a proper model. Everything is there, window frames, plinths, and all with relatively few polygons. Very, very nice.

I appreciate that.

just a small couple of questtions first when did fiberglass, cement board and corrugated metal become sustainable ? second why a minimal wood frame if you are aiming for sustainability would not more wood be better? i mean as long as its plantation grown its storing the carbon it absorbed when it was alive and now that its been cut down another tree is growing where it was and in doing so it sequestering more carbon. it may not be as durable ( and even then with treatment its pretty durable) but still mining for metal ores and smelting of said ores and then machining of said all produce vast amounts of co2 and other's problem gases as does the mining of gravel and sand for concrete aggregate and unless you use lime-Crete or such cement requires again lots of energy. as i write this it feel like I'm attacking you I'm sorry that's not my intent but I'm not great with words it was not intended that way but as a genuine question thanks look forward to your response :)

All your points are right. Also the production and transportation of photovoltaics leave a "footprint" as well. I understand, I can "save" one thing but at the expense of another. There's no escaping that. You're going to emit no matter what. A house could be "energy efficient" but it doesn't mean you didn't use materials. Every time you use Earth's materials, you emit. Now, as I think about it, I could have worded the description differently. The power the house could produce is sustainable but the materials may not be quite so much. I realize that now. However, I do have an error problem at the moment and can't adjust the description. But thank you for bringing it to my attention. You are an intelligent person.

why thank you its nice of you to say:) are you by chance an architect? you model's are very good :) i my self have been working on a few things had a few idea and would love to talk to some one about them:)

I am not an architect. This is just stuff I like to do in my free time. I'd like to get a glance at your ideas, though.

well at the moment on working on hexagonal rooms... its like a square but with 2 extra sides to put stuff on its great it'll revolutionize house building.... :P .but in all seriousness my actually project is related to a problem we here in new Zealand are having with a housing crisis particularly in Auckland where you're looking at a median house price of upwards of 800,000 nzd (594,000~usd) this mainly due to the fact that 1 Auckland a terrible place for a city being sandwiched on a narrow (relatively) bit of land with the Tasman sea on one side and the pacific on the other the Bombay hills to the south and the harbor to the north ... (great place for trans shipment in the 1870s tho) 2nd of the around 4-5 million people in New Zealand around about 1.5 million of the live in Auckland of that a significant percentage being migrants from the pacific island's (note i say this not in disdain but merely because being the biggest city that far north it is much warmer than the rest of the country and as such is easier for them to acclimate too. as such getting people from Auckland to move to further south to the rest of the country further south is hard) 3rd part of the culture here is the "New Zealand dream" that is a quarter acre section with a detached house preferably 3-4 bedrooms etc with a bit of land to grow vegetable and maybe keep some chicken and such most people these days forgo the vegetables and chicken's for KFC and maca's but the detached house with a quarter acre is still very desirable to most so I'm working on a compromise between the quarter acre and the shoebox apartments that are so dreaded you know what a duplex house is right? I'm working on a pentex 5 levels with differing sized house on each large 300sqm ones on the bottom for those who want kids and space go up a level and maybe 200 sqm for those who want space but don't want to have to deal with a garden. up another level say 150sqm for couples and singles and at the top say 100sqm for the elderly

~ for the elderly who don't want so much space to maintain and clean but would like maybe a little roof top garden or to keep say a small dog or such the roof will be a green roof for recreational use with greenery to help with thermal management being in New Zealand and being prone to earthquakes i'm opting for pile foundations of what are effectively stripped pine trees called ttt sed poles being 22meters long and 550mm diameter at the base narrowing by 6 millimeters every meter up with 650mm deep 300mm wide 6 meter long wooden trusses affixed to them from which the walls and floors will be suspended / supported the 300mm walls will contain 2 layers of 140mm r-4 glass batts in a staggered stud layout at 600mm centers the studs being 2610mm tall by 140mm wide by 45mm deep with a 20 mm gap between for either added insulation or 10 or 20 mm plywood to act as additional stiffening and or bracing if required for the 2700mm walls rigid air barrier of 7mm ply on the out side works both as a r.a.b and also as wind and earthquake bracing the sed poles act at the piles for the foundation and are to be driven to a depth of 4 meters and treated with marine grade h5 preservative well that's what I've got so far :) any ideas and or suggestions?

I saw that. The downloads are through the roof.

Beautiful House

Thanks, sir!

Good job,thanks!