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Yolanda's Central City Eco House

Yolanda's Central City Eco House

New Zealand > Canterbury > Christchurch > Aranui
www.greenspace.co.nz Summary: solar water heating untreated timber framing non-toxic interior and exterior painted surfaces plantation timber flooring triple glazing equivalent recycled carpet insulati...


Straw Bale Residence

Straw Bale Residence

New Zealand > Canterbury > Geraldine
This hybrid, 123 square meter straw bale home is nestled in a back section in the town of Geraldine. Owners, designer Sarah Johnston, and builder, Sven Johnston, decided to blend their past experiences to create their first home together. The overall intent was to design and build a warm, ...


longhouse

longhouse

New Zealand > Wellington > Martinborough
This house uses extensive solar passive and active elements to create an energy neutrual dwelling. It was designed atelierworkshop (see atelierworkshop.com) whose work revolves around strong concepts related to the site and sustainable architecture


Environmentally Friendly Renovation

Environmentally Friendly Renovation

New Zealand > Southland > Te Anau
As part of our sensible house principles we believe that renovating existing houses is environmentally friendly. We bought an old crib and stripped the interior, relined, rewired, replumbed, reinsulated and redesigned to allow for passive solar design and indoor-outdoor flow. We have eco l...


Energy Efficient house

Energy Efficient house

New Zealand > Otago > Queenstown > Frankton
Modern contemporary sunny house, built by designer for own family home, making best use of site for sun and stunning views. The 4 year old house is one block away from Frankton Village's cafe's and restaurants yet tucked away with privacy, peace and quiet. Recycled timber on top floo...


Waitakere NOW Home - showing the benefits of a sustainable home

Waitakere NOW Home - showing the benefits of a sustainable home

New Zealand > Auckland > Waitakere City > New Lynn
Beacon Pathway’s Waitakere NOW Home® proves that an affordable modern home that looks like any other in the street can also be warm, dry,healthy, and kind to the environment. Completed with modern, readily available materials and design methods, the house cost just $220,000 to build in...


Cornerstone building system ideal healthy option for aged housing

Cornerstone building system ideal healthy option for aged housing

New Zealand > Nelson/Tasman > Motueka
Many older people and poorer families suffer in under insulated homes in New Zealand where homes do not meet the World Health Standard (WHS). Immigrants from the coldest parts of Russia, Asia and the Europe get a rude shock when faced with weighing up the comfort levels they have been us...


Architectural Hybrid Homes

Architectural Hybrid Homes

New Zealand > Nelson/Tasman > Nelson > Nelson South
We have done it! The first Hybrid Home in Nelson is now completed and is available for viewing. Can you imagine a monthly power bill so small you get excited when it arrives? Can you imagine a home built with your family’s total comfort in mind - bright, open spaces using energy efficie...


The first EcoTrend show home in Canterbury

The first EcoTrend show home in Canterbury

New Zealand > Canterbury > Christchurch > Halswell
Built by Pegasus Property Ltd, the environmentally friendly house reflects the future standards that New Zealand may soon require of modern homes. Designed for our climatic realities and constructed from environmentally friendly, recyclable materials wherever possible, EcoTrend homes incor...


FLW/Japanese House

FLW/Japanese House

New Zealand > Canterbury > Ashburton
Jack and Margaret Scott from Ashburton have an admiration for Japanese Architecture and they are also fans of the late great American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, particularly his early prairie houses. They have built several times before and had some very good ideas of there own that the...


Studio Apartment

Studio Apartment

New Zealand > Auckland > Waitakere City > Ranui
Studio Apartment. Beautifully finished apartment with rammed earth walls, macracarpa timber finishings and a mezzanine loft bedroom. This apartment is a delight to live in, with solar heated water and access to tank and town water supplies. Become part of a truly lovely and supportive e...


Rolleston House

Rolleston House

New Zealand > Canterbury > Rolleston
Sustainability and energy efficiency of this home were priorities for the owners, migrating from England. The design by Bob Burnett Architecture won the Sustainability Award in the 2008 ADNZ Resene Regional Design Awards. It also won the Bathroom Award and it was a finalist in other catego...


Bob Burnett Showhome

Bob Burnett Showhome

New Zealand > Canterbury
Bob Burnett Architecture Showhome, 6 Runswick Lane A new home near the top of the Broad Oaks subdivision on the port hills in Christchurch has been designed as a showhome to showcase innovative sustainable design ideas and new materials and products by Architectural couple Bob Burnett a...


Westrend House

Westrend House

New Zealand > Auckland > Waitakere City > Glen Eden
This house is featured in the environmental section of the July/August edition of Homestyle magazine. I can email you the article if you wish. It is basically a standard 4 bedroom home but I have tried to build it with an environmental conscience. Floors are all New Zealand grown Eucalypt...


Atawhai

Atawhai

New Zealand > Nelson/Tasman
BRIEF The design responds to site conditions and energy efficiency. Orientation maximises solar gains and sea views from each room. A double height sunspace is at the core of the home LOW ENERGY CONCEPTS -Modern Family home with passive solar and high energy efficiency -Passive S...


Green Bay renovation

Green Bay renovation

New Zealand > Auckland > Waitakere City
The house started as a cottage, was added to over the decades, and received a major eco-renovation when the present owner took it over in 1998. A thermal mass conservatory was added and insulation was installed in the ceiling, some new walls, and underfloor. Solar waterheating, grid-tied P...


Gorgeous Kauri Bungalow

Gorgeous Kauri Bungalow

New Zealand
10 years of hard work has turned this traditional kauri bungalow into something special. Originally located in Portland (20 mins north of Waipu) this imaculate old lady was transported to its present site in Waipu Village and transformed into a work of art. Complete with artist studio, ...


The Solabode Affordable Eco Home

The Solabode Affordable Eco Home

New Zealand
UPDATE June 2011: Clients are still very happy with the performance of this home now in its third winter. Last year I set about designing the Solabode MKII which as well as responding to lessons learnt on the MKI version, now incorporates PREFAB technology and MODULAR design in that the...


Volcalite Compressed Pumice Blocks

Volcalite Compressed Pumice Blocks

New Zealand
This house is constructed from 'Volcalite' blocks. These blocks are manufactured by us here in BOP (Pumice Industries Ltd). Volcalite blocks are made from pumice and cement that is compressed into a 300x200x90mm solid block. The blocks have been tested and show that they are 10 times stron...


Laba Residence - Dunedin Eco Home - Solar, wind etc

Laba Residence - Dunedin Eco Home - Solar, wind etc

New Zealand > Otago > Dunedin > St Clair
A residential dwelling located at Mission Cove, Company Bay on the Otago Peninsula was designed as a solar passive energy conserving home for Mike and Edith Laba. The design process began in May 2004. The principal requirement was for the dwelling to be energy efficient, environmentally fr...


Devonport Lohas Home

Devonport Lohas Home

New Zealand > Auckland > North Shore City > Devonport
An eco-friendly, self-contained stand-alone, modern two bedroom accommodation. Designed by a leading environmentally-focused architect, Johann Bernhardt of Equinox Design. Built using renewable materials, this well-insulated house is powered by renewable energy supplied by Meridian, wi...


Papakowhai Renovations - House 10

Papakowhai Renovations - House 10

New Zealand > Wellington > Porirua > Papakowhai
House 10 in the Papakowhai Renovation project saved 30% on annual power bills, through full insulation and double glazing combined with an efficient heating source, improving indoor temperatures and family health. Solar water heating and wetbacks on both the solar system and woodburner pro...


Khandallah energy efficiency rental

Khandallah energy efficiency rental

New Zealand > Wellington > Wellington > Khandallah
Nicknamed the Recycled house. A great living space for adults and children with private kids play area's in the downstairs bedrooms. 1940s state home, renovated to beyond today's building standards. Wiring: Cat 5 throughout the home and coax throughout the home ready for any type o...


Buckeridge Cunneen House

Buckeridge Cunneen House

New Zealand > Canterbury > Christchurch > Hillsborough
This is our own home from which I work that has been designed and built as a test bed and display home for all of my ideas regarding combining energy efficiency and passive solar design into a home that functions without compromise as a contemporary modern home, using `standard' constructi...


Tour the Solar Energy House.co.nz in Auckland

Tour the Solar Energy House.co.nz in Auckland

New Zealand > Auckland > Auckland City Area > Meadowbank
The Solar Energy House in Meadowbank, Auckland is a renovated ex state house that has a energy bill of less than $50/month yet is 609m2 in size with 5 occupants, home based business with lots of electronic appliances! Modern & spacious and available for you to get a professional tour. 5...


Riverwood Urban Eco Homestay, by Ecotect

Riverwood Urban Eco Homestay, by Ecotect

New Zealand > Nelson/Tasman
Home for over 14 years now and have just moved my design office back home using the study and one bedroom upstairs. In the last 3 years my partner and I have created extensive organic vege gardens and planted some fruit trees all of which covers almost all available space that was just gro...


Wadestown Solar Home

Wadestown Solar Home

New Zealand > Wellington
This experimental family home and architectural design studio has an ongoing research component involving the thermal tracking and data recording of passive and active solar performance throughout the house and the basement rock bin. Fan assisted solar harvesting is a feature of the winter...


Westmere house - a new urban sustainable home by ebode

Westmere house - a new urban sustainable home by ebode

New Zealand > Auckland > Auckland City Area > Westmere
ebode has completed the Urban Sustainable House Project in Westmere. The House is a true passive solar house and is now sending live climate data to the ebode web site for all to see http://ebode.co.nz/WeatherData.html ebode also monitors power consumption and detailed climate data whic...


volcalite home

volcalite home

New Zealand > Bay Of Plenty > Kawerau
Our home is built of a new pumice block system that is awaiting branz approval at this moment. A volcalite block (compressed pumice/cement) is 300x220x90mm in dimensional size and weighs only one third the weight of concrete. There are approx 55 blocks per surface square metre of wall whic...


Omaha Modular Bach, BY SOLAREI

Omaha Modular Bach, BY SOLAREI

New Zealand > Northland
A 100 m2, three bedroom passive solar modular house designed to accommodate a modest budget. This project is collaboration between SOLAREI and a LOCAL housing company and will be constructed by the end of the year. It’s a small house with some big ideas and hopefully will be financiall...


Waikuku Beach House

Waikuku Beach House

New Zealand > Canterbury
Waikuku Beach House is an Insulated Precast Concrete Panel House. This is optimum construction type providing thermal mass, comfort and permanence resulting in a very cosy home with low running costs. Panel junctions and openings have been detailed to provide a continuous insulation envelo...


SOLAR MODULE (S-MOD), BY SOLAREI

SOLAR MODULE (S-MOD), BY SOLAREI

New Zealand > Northland
Affordable sustainable homes designed for modest budgets. This is work in progress with a local housing company. The following is a range of modular houses which are affordable, innovative, climatically responsive to NZ environments utilising passive solar and passive cooling principles...


Passive House Showhome

Passive House Showhome

New Zealand > Canterbury > Christchurch > Addington
The Housing Innovation Experience is an initiative by PrefabNZ to showcase what is possible with prefabricated buildings. We have chosen to not only showcase a prefabricated home, but also a Certified Passive House. Our showhome will be NZ's first Passive House. The Passive House Sta...


The Earth House, Orewa

The Earth House, Orewa

New Zealand > Auckland > Hibiscus Coast > Orewa
The Earth House, Orewa The earth brick house is in a delightful location, with direct access to the beach, just 50m down the shared driveway. It's a charming 2-storey home in a contemporary style, with solid 360mm earth walls, the bricks showing on the exterior but earth-plastered inter...


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