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Straw Bale (pukeko hollow)

New Zealand > Bay Of Plenty > Opotiki > Hospital Hill

Pukeko Hollow straw bale house post and beam construction with exposed beams and sarking,macracarpa floors and ceilings, solid macracarpa doors, north facing sun drenched open plan living downstairs with three french doors two of those doors opening onto large sheltered decks, large vege ...

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, ...

Te papa - Straw bale eco friendly home

New Zealand

Strawbale house, post and beam construction, built in 1998, is a real time test house. Very simple structure made with lots of passion and hard work. People rave about our home, I still think sometimes they are just trying to be nice because they know how hard we worked. Away, see what you...

Modern Design & Passive Solar Mudbrick House in Nelson

New Zealand > Nelson/Tasman > Nelson

MAEDER & WIEGAND HOUSE Wakapuaka, Nelson 3 bedroom house with load-bearing adobe walls and timber framed top storey. Contemporary simple eco-design incorporating passive solar principles, Solar Water Heating, Composting Toilet and Rainwater Collection. Special Feature: Ex...

Strawbale & earthen plaster ecohouse in Nelson

New Zealand > Nelson/Tasman

Hybrid two storey ecohouse featuring post and beam construction with strawbale in fill wall insulation, block walls through centre of the structure for bracing and beam support. Macrocarpa weatherboards over douglas fir framing on upper storey. Ground floor straw, block and timber walls ...

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...

Unique Rainforest Lodge

New Zealand > Waikato > Thames > Thames North

see: www.tararuvalley.org currently Tararu Valley Sanctuary runs an ecotourism programme involving international volunteers in hands-on conservation work protecting and replanting the forest of Tararu Valley. our buildings provide accommodation for a large group of residential volunteer...

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...

Self-sufficient Mobile Home

New Zealand > Wellington

All home comforts neatly arranged in a warm, cosy, self-sufficient mobile home. The 'Little Cracker' woodburner cooks, and heats water. Wool insulation keeps the bus toasty for hours - or open the doors and/or roof vents to cool down. King single bed is natural latex covered with wool, and...

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...

Off Grid Eco-Stay

New Zealand > Marlborough

This a traditional house that is completely off the grid, powered by Solar and a Micro-Hydro and featuring the first domestic Biolytix Sewage installation in New Zealand. We desired to prove to ourselves that a more traditional form of building can still be enviromentally friendly usin...

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...

Passive solar lifestyle block

New Zealand > Wellington > Masterton

2 water sources - rural water scheme for house which is gravity feed so does not require pressure pump. Creek running through property for garden and animals. North facing to maximise sun. Minimal glazing on southern side to reduce heat loss. Mezzanine floor to provide additional sleepin...

Kokomuka Green Home

New Zealand > Otago > Portobello

This stunning architecturally designed home has been built to be ecologically benign and energy efficient. It uses solar water heating, has extra-deep wall cavities with natural wool insulation and all windows are double-glazed. It uses a passive solar designed via an insulated concrete fo...

Kornaless

United Kingdom

You Tube link to Kornaless CGI Visualisation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ3gdsEUDsk Eco-concept House built from ICF block, incorporating a number of Eco-technologies for an off-the-grid home. Commissioned by Denstone Construction in the UK to demonstrate the versatility and susta...

Eco-Chateau

France

Eco-Chateau is a new co-housing community & eco-holiday destination on a 13-hectare estate with 17th century Chateau de Cautine at its centre. It is set in one of the most untouched parts of rural France and on the edge of the magnificent Dordogne with its deep rivers, gorges, forests, lak...

Modernist ECO.

New Zealand > Canterbury

This home is designed to be passively efficient, and look good. As well as winning many architectural awards, it has also been used as a practical example of the theories of thermal design by the Christchurch Polytechnic. The main thermal design elements are: Glazing - maximised t...

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...

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...

Strawbale House and Business - Borderland Cherries

New Zealand > Canterbury > Waimate

PRICED TO SELL! Priced well below CV, this property offers lifestyle and income. It is situated in a popular and growing area of Waimate and has lovely rural views. The land is level and rectangular in shape with good shelter from poplar trees on SW and NW boundaries. There is ample carp...

Cornerstone Building System choice for Ben Lomond Lodge

New Zealand

The Ben Lomond Station Experience in a Lodge built in the Cornerstone Building system. Cornerstone was chosen for this project due to the benefits in the high insulation and simplicity of construction in such a remote area in the mountains above Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown. With breathta...

Luxury brand new eco house with high R value for sale

New Zealand > Bay Of Plenty > Katikati

Brand new high quality fit out eco house with high R values. The concrete floor was installed with an extra 50m layer of poly to help keep the warmth in. External walls build from Amboisne polystyrene blocks filled with concrete, 250mm wide with R value of 3. Poly block walls go ...

Passive House in NZ

New Zealand > Waikato > Raglan

A Passive House, that's what we are building. A concept that's new to New Zealand. Our house will be one of the first Passive Houses in the country. A Passive House is - A very well-insulated, virtually air-tight building - Primarily heated by passive solar gain and by internal gains ...

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...

Whare Kaha

New Zealand > Waikato > Rotorua

Lovely lifestyle block, peaceful with 0.5 hectare of indigenous forest. Close to very good primary school. 21 km to Rotorua, 48 km to Tauranga.

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