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Shalimaar Gardens, River Kwai, Kanchanaburi, Thailand, By SOLAREI.

Thailand

Shalimarr Garden Residence will be located on a minor Peninsula with prime views up and down the River Kwai,Kanchanaburi, Thailand. The site is in a secluded location surrounded by river jungle, a stream, Burmese mountains in the far West and an adjacent house site on the south side of the...

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...

Restored 1930's 3bdrm bungalow on 3 acres

New Zealand > Bay Of Plenty

Fully restored 3 bdrm eco-friendly home on 3 acres of semi-organic land with native bush This 1930s bungalow has been meticulously restored by its present owner and features extensive use of native timbers from the polished floors to the hall panelling and stunning bathroom vanity. Soli...

Living sustainably - eco friendly house

New Zealand > Auckland > Auckland City Area

1. Passive solar design - thermal mass (concrete floors in combination with appropriate glazing) storing the winter sun during daytime and releasing radiant warmth at night 2. double glazing along southern and eastern parts of the house 3. Insulation above Building Code requirements ...

Hillsborough Road eco friendly home

New Zealand > Auckland

Hillsborough Road house This is a challenging site with the need to maximize southerly harbour views resulting in a ‘breaking-up’ of the house, with open outdoor spaces reaching between a northern and a southern part, thus allowing the sun to penetrate deep into the southern living areas ...

Art Deco made Environmentally Sustainable - KAHURANGI, 2006

New Zealand > Auckland > Auckland City Area > Mt Eden

Designed by Heritage Design Group ph 09 620-1939 http://www.hdg.co.nz/ As an architecture practice promoting sustainability, we felt it was important to ‘walk the talk’, so in 2006 we embarked on the ambitious project ...

Sustainable House by Michael Mobbs

Australia > NSW > Sydney

One of the inspirations for developing the Ecobob web site came from a book I read called ‘Sustainable House’ by Michael Mobbs. In this book, Michael describes how he converted his inner city town house into a sustaina...

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...

Auckland Eco Home

New Zealand > Auckland > Papakura & Franklin District

Sustainable features of the house: Conservatory for the collection of the sun’s energy Passive solar design Complemented by high insulation and double glazing Solar water heating Renewable materials Natural finishes Eco wood burner with wetback Rainwater collection Sustainable o...

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...

Living in a Green House

New Zealand > Bay Of Plenty

If you take the time to drive around the Coromandel Peninsula looking for homes that stand out, there is one building company name that seems to commonly have its sign on display: Rod Percival Builders Ltd. Rod has won many of the Registered Master Builders House of the Year Awards, and is...

new house - stage one

New Zealand > Canterbury > Geraldine

The first part of a passive solar house designed by Roger Buck Associates of Christchurch, constructed by Hendersons of Timaru. Winner (for builder) of Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Awards in regional Master Builders' Awards 2008 On-site waste treatment designed by EcoEng includes ...

Powered Living Passive Solar House

New Zealand > Nelson/Tasman > Nelson

The house is built to integrate Helen's specialist knowledge of passive solar home design with architectural style - the first impression you get is that this house is not lacking anything in the beauty department. Then as you look closer and listen to Helen describe the features you come ...

Sustainable / Eco Bio house - Wanaka, New Zealand

New Zealand > Otago > Wanaka

This house was featured as part of the Sustainable Wanaka 'Sustainable House Day 2007' - see www.sustainablewanaka.co.nz for more information. The house is an eco friendly lodge complete with games room, art, a...

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

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

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...

Straw Bale House in Ohakune, Wanganui

New Zealand > Manawatu-Wanganui > Ohakune

The straw bale walls offer great insulation with an R value of 9.2 Well insulated floors R value of 2.4, insulated using 100% recycled plastic. The entire house is double glazed and the windows use PVCU as a thermal break to reduce heat loss. A unique opportunity exisit to own o...

Clovelly Eco House - Inner City Sydney

Australia > NSW > Sydney

The Clovelly House is an environmentally friendly three bedroom, semi-detached house, with an in-ground swimming pool and off-street car parking. The house is in Clovelly, an inner city suburb of Sydney, Australia. The home was designed by Kennedy Associates Architects and completed in ...

A self supporters home - For Sale - $315,000

New Zealand > Northland

Situated in the Kohatu Toa Eco Village, this home and land is designed to feed a family for the entire year. It has a well established and organic orchard, sub tropical orchard, and vegetable gardens in good heart. There are three different living spaces - The main house, a double bedroom ...

Taupo Ebode

New Zealand > Waikato > Taupo

TAUPO HOUSE – ECO HOME BY EBODE – TRULY SUSTAINABLE HOMES www.ebode.co.nz BRIEF: This 1960s board & batten home was essentially a ‘bach that grew’ – and included undesirable features such as a huge South-facing deck that was never used; large S...

Waipu cove Ebode

New Zealand > Northland > Waipu Cove

Ebode prototype - WAIPU COVE BACH, 2007 For this elevated section overlooking Waipu Cove, our clients wanted a modest home in the 'kiwi bach' tradition, designed with environmentally sustainable principles and using materials and detailing to reflect the coastal location. The result...

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

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...

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...

Combine Cornerstone Building systems INSULATION,Hot water & space heating for LOW ENERGY home.

New Zealand > Canterbury > Southbridge

Sustainability, using the Cornerstone Building system and the Te WERA boiler for hot water and the minimal space heating…..our home was definitely that. We fully intended building a straw bale home and Chris had been on the straw bale building course all ready to go, until Chris met Danie...

Eco Friendly / Hybrid Home in Nelson / Tasman

New Zealand > Nelson/Tasman > Nelson > Tahunanui

Another full hybrid home has just been finished! This stunning property is located in one of the most desirable areas in Nelson and has full hybrid and eco features. We have gone the extra mile to sourse as many eco/sustainable building products as we can find, with some of them being used...

Straw Bale Eco Friendly Eco Haven

New Zealand > Canterbury > Purau

Diamond Harbour just seems to sparkle with light when you look over at it from the often grey port of Lyttelton. Although it's just stone’s throw away from the port, it has it's own warmer micro-climate - a major attraction for people who choose to settle there. One of those people is H...

Cornerstone Licencee,Future Homes NZ wins 2 NZ NATIONAL AWARDS

New Zealand > Waikato > Taupo

“Cornerstone Building System”, Taupo Licencee wins DBH Gold award for best sustainable home under $500,000 for National Award 2008 after winning the Taupo District Gold medal. To add to this prize was the National award for the "Pink Batts Best Energy Efficient home" STOP PRE...

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

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

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...

Kauritatahi farm

New Zealand > Bay Of Plenty

House is currently under construction by owner. Incorporates traditional post & beam construction using locally grown Lawson Cyprus timber and Rotorua manufactured Timbercrete block walls. Will feature good passive solar design, solar panels and wood stove boiler water heating, double glaz...

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...

Rod Percival Green Show Home

New Zealand > Waikato > Coromandel

WILL YOU BE DISSAPOINTED TO FIND THIS PROPERTY SOLD FOR A PRICE YOU COULD AFFORD? Immaculate, healthy award winning eco show home must be sold at auction June 10 2009, this could be incredible value for money. This beautiful home was built by award winning builder Rod Percival to de...

toastie

New Zealand > Waikato > Cambridge

Standard built house, brick over timber frame, concrete floor, concrete tile roof. Passive Solar Underfloor heating installed by the Floor*Store. See www.floorstore.org Two Masport woodburners with wetback. Heat transfer system to bedrooms. Weiss 3 room kit with additional of a centri...

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...

Kapiti Off Grid

New Zealand > Wellington > Otaki

3 bed, 2 bath, twin-gable replica villa. FSC-sourced rusticated weatherboard. UT pine framing (internal). 60,000L roofwater storage. Membrane water-filtration over UV (zero power vs 130W always-on). 20mm Argon double-glazing with timber double-hung sash joinery. Sewage pumped to stepping t...

Waikato House, BY SOLAREI

New Zealand > Waikato

Description: Three bedroom passive solar energy efficient family house. Designed by: Solarei. Location: Waikato, North Island, New Zealand. The project brief was to design a family house which primarily conserved energy through its passive solar design and would require minimal m...

FOR SALE: Waiheke Island Eco Friendly House

New Zealand > Auckland > Waitakere City

A new modern house with panoramic views. The house has been designed by eco-architect Johann Bernhardt. The house features cedar cladding, Poggen Pohl kitchen, oak floors, large glass sliders, glass balustrades and all white interior. Open plan living with two sleeping levels, two bathroom...

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