View more about this house on BRANZ This home is located on the Otago coast. It has a floor area of 340 m², was built between 2002 and 2003, cost approximately $350,000, and is occupied by two adults and children. The whole house was built ...

Move your whole family right into this lovely eco-friendly home. Architect designed, and constructed using rammed earth and natural timber. Incorporating passive solar techniques, along with eco friendly technologies, this home offers utility bills that can only be dreamed of. A warm feel and modern decor give this home an inviting and cosy feel. O...

Sustainability and energy efficiency of this home were priorities for the owners, migrating from England. The home is super insulated using thick woolfibre insultion and designed to capture the sun. An internal courtyard with stone heat-sink walls and roof louvres acts as a solar room and captures the suns. The lourves can also be opened for co...

Ebode prototype - WAIPU COVE BACH, 2007 www.ebode.co.nz 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 i...

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 South-facing windows with single glazing and deteriorating jo...

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 sleepout/office, and a smaller single bedroom cottage. There...

View an article about this house The interior design is clean, minimalist and beautiful, as well as earthy due to favouring the use of exposed wood in design. Jack and Margaret love their pine ceiling with exposed beams, and clerestory windows to allow in lig...

This house was designed by the land, it adopts to the site constraints which are quite significant, including an overland flow path, underground stream and springs. This led to an interesting shape, offering open space and privacy, whatever is required. Built from boron treated pine with extensive use of exposed macrocarpa beams and joists, a doub...

See the full article on the Nelson Mail web site When Maitai resident Peter Olorenshaw built his mudbrick home 10 years ago, sustainable living was far from the catchword it is today. Olorenshaw, an architect with a passion for green issu...

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 2004. It was designed to meet the spatial and accessibility ...

Rangiora Eco Village is a 120 hectare sustainable coastal development with stunning views over the Hokianga Harbour, in the sub-tropical region of Northland. It is located only 4kms from the historic village and artists haven of Kohukohu in New Zealand. Our aim is for Rangiora Eco Village to be a forerunner in a new wave of eco building that is ...

Construction: Timber frame walls; floor is 100mm slab with 50mm screed and 50mm polystyrene (with embedded water pipes for heating via solar hot water / wet back system); timber truss roof with corrugated steel cladding. Windows: PVC framed double glazed. Thermal mass: Concrete floor and stones surrounding wood burner. Insulation: During b...

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, antiques and amazing ambience. One amazing feature of this...

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 to realise the house is also much more environmentally frien...

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 also a leading Green Builder, committed to truly sustainabl...

The NOW Home in New Lynn, Waitakere City, is proof that an affordable modern home that looks like any other in the street can also be warm & healthy, enjoyable to live in, and kind to the environment. Built in 2005 by Beacon Pathway Ltd, a research consortium committed to improving the sustainability of New Zealand homes, the three-bedroom home...

Properties of the future will offer what this exceptional property offers you now. From its superb ridge-top location this exceptional property spans panoramic views of Mountains, Bush, and the sparkling Tasman Bay—Sublime! Promising a bush-clad haven for the future, the 2.164ha have been planted with over 1000 native trees and shrubs. Delight ...

Tony and Jean Bacon owned a section 300 metres above sea-level in the Waitakere Ranges, west of Auckland, for many years before deciding to build on it. They wanted a light, sunny house for easy living, a practical home office, and workrooms for their creative endeavours. Designed by Lambourne Architects ...

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 are finished in natural earthen plasters with casein / beesw...

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 on-site wastewater management. In 2005, Johann Bernhart of...

In an age where it is increasingly easy to disregard our environment, despite escalating scientific concerns, there are New Zealanders who are taking a firm stance on the direction the country should be headed. The residential construction industry is just one area where eco-principles can readily be substituted in place of their non-toxic and non-...

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: Extensive earthen plasters on most gibbed walls Design for...

Earthsong eco-neighbourhood is New Zealand's first co-housing development. It is set in 1.29ha of former organic orchard and includes a large common house with kitchen, dining, lounge, children's & teen rooms, guest room, laundry and activities rooms. The property includes a shared workshop, large commonly owned open spaces, orchard & gardens. ...

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 sustainable, eco friendly home. His goal was to obtain his own water...

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 of turning our urban (Central Auckland) home and office into...