The house is located in the valley of Puigpunyent, in the Sierra de Tramuntana mountain range in Mallorca. It boasts optimal orientation towards the south and open views towards the mountains. Access to the house is through a small porch where there are movable vertical slats that can be used to control the sunlight. Inside, there is the living-din...
Project name
Puigpunyent Eco-Passive House
Architecture firm
Miquel Lacomba Architects
Location
Puigpunyent, Mallorca, Spain
Photography
Mauricio Fuertes
Principal architect
Miquel Lacomba Architects
Collaborators
Technical architect/Energy Consultant: José Manuel Busquets Hidalgo (+efficiency)
Interior design
Miquel Àngel Lacomba Seguí
Structural engineer
Julio Gracia
Landscape
PPB (Paisatgisme i Obra Civil)
Lighting
World Light Studio, Miquel Àngel Lacomba Seguí
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Adobe Photoshop
Material
Wood, Wood Panels, Marble
Typology
Residential › House
Australia’s first off-the-plan certified Passive House project. CUUB's partners, C.Street, have successfully created Australia's inaugural off-plan passive house, featuring an array of energy-efficient technologies. C.Street has invested significant effort in meticulously investigating and managing the extensive technical requirements associated wi...
Architecture firm
C.Street
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Kin Seng Choo
Visualization
CUUB Studio
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Residential › House
Passive house is a voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building, which reduces the building's ecological footprint. It results in ultra-low energy buildings that require little energy for space heating or cooling.
Written by
D1 Construction
Photography
D1 Construction in collaboration with Passive House School
Completed in 2018 by Russian architceture firm Snegiri Architects, the cottage was created as a “passive house”, with the ability to save 90 percent more energy than a regular home thanks to a little technical know-how.
Architecture firm
Snegiri Architects
Photography
Nikita Kapiturov
Principal architect
Nikita Kapiturov
Design team
Snegiri Architecture
Interior design
Nikita Kapiturov
Visualization
Victoria Dementieva
Material
Foundation with cold-proof Swedish plate, carcass with monolith, with cold-proof mineral wool covered with larix wood saturated in natural flax oil
Typology
Residential › House
This home combines the character and heritage of the past with the innovation and sustainability needs of the future. The owners of this North Vancouver Craftsman bungalow, originally built in 1912, envisioned a home that reflected the history of its location and of their 20 years living there as a family, while being functionally and visually insp...
Project name
North Vancouver Passive House Plus
Architecture firm
MGA - Michael Green Architecture
Location
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Principal architect
Michael Green
Design team
Michael Green, Jordan van Dijk, Marie Claire Bligh, Guadalupe Font
Collaborators
Red Door Energy Design Ltd. (Energy Advisor), RDH Building Science Inc. (Envelope Consultant), Ocean Sun Geotechnical Ltd. (Geotechnical)
Interior design
Sahra Samnani
Structural engineer
Wicke Herfst Maver
Material
Wood, Glass, Concrete
Client
Kathy Fung and David Roberts
Typology
Residential › House
About thirty years ago, German researcher Dr Feist developed a prototype that would later be known as the Passivhaus or "Passive House". Passivhaus architecture is an architectural style that meets the standard for energy efficiency while minimizing the building's ecological footprint.
Written by
Gerard Smithers
Photography
Castaño & Asociados Passivhaus
