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Eco Home on Great Barrier Island
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Eco home on Great Barrier Island

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Eco house

This property has the following features:

Passive solar design
Solar hot water
Timber framing

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New Zealand > Auckland > Hauraki Gulf & Islands > Great Barrier Island
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Description

The house is nestled in a beautifully private setting surrounded with large Puriri trees, Blackwoods and other natives. The building form is elevated for flood protection, and acknowledges the hill to the west, lifting towards it’s elevation. The living zone opens completely to this setting, and the timber exoskeleton references the surrounding trees. The bedrooms all have protected outdoor space, being closely located to the trees for increased privacy. The house is located to protect the existing vegetation and to make the most of the sun and the native bird life on the property.

Being on Great Barrier Island, the building also needed to be sustainable - the following abstract from an e-mail received from the Clients refers to this point: “The outdoor room is a place we spend much of our time, eating, reading, doing homework and siesta-ing; but the feeling of being indoors on those hot summer days with all doors open is also fantastic. Not cold enough (owing to that great low E glass and good design) for fires yet - we have had 2 only for ambience, not heat. “It is an astonishingly decadent feeling lying in a bath of free water, heated by the sun, pumped by solar power. Free as anything! Hot water gets up to 68 degrees in the tank from the sun, and has to be cooled to come out the tap. “With 9 staying and all the laptops, music, washing etc we’ve only run the generator 3 times ever. All the irrigation systems do clever things. So it’s more than a PC nod to sustainability, as you know from all our fussing about timbers and paints.”

Visit http://www.ccca.co.nz/0506_great%20barrier_house.php for more information.

 
 

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by sue 25 Mar 11, 2 replies : Last Post Sort by:
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sue
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This forum thread has been marked as a question for other Ecobob users to answer. Who is the architect 
Posted 25 Mar 11 4:11 PM
Could you please tell me who is the architect for the eco home on Great Barrier Island? I think it is fabulous.

Sue
Jason
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Re: Who is the architect 
Posted 25 Mar 11 7:46 PM
http://www.ccca.co.nz/0506_great%20barrier_house.php
carrie huang
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Re: Who is the architect 
Posted 6 Mar 12 6:20 PM
would you tell me the architect in the somewhere?
 

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