Sustainability- Dutch House.
Brief
The aim of this project is to design a sustainable house set within one of six plots of land in Sefton Park landscape for a family of five using the infrastructure of the The Dutch House, by contemporary master Rem Koolhaas, to develop a framework to live and work in. The design must incorporate: work space for the parents design past-times and business; accommodate the taller than average family member heights; a central social family-kitchen-dining experience; make use of solar technologies; provide recycling and storage; renewable, recycled materials; bedroom for the two daughters, aged 6; and a studio/bed for their son, aged 22 and extended guests to stay in with separate entrance. The Dutch House is already within the sustainable domain in that the floor plates are proposed as permanent & immutable and the skin & contents are considered as to be temporal and changeable. The floor slabs also provide a mass which can be utilized as a heat sink with an appropriate design proposal.
Design Rationale
Within my design I have tried to focus on the idea of Permaculture, where the sites qualities will be taken advantage of via using the landscape and its natural cycles, to create human habits and ultimately a low impact lifestyle, where the occupants can be self-supporting. An example of where this is applied in the design is the use of the vegetable peelings storage to allow for creating compost, which will be used to grow food on-site. The layout also aims to encourage connection with the outdoor environment via creating easy access to paths for exercise, and terrace/gardens for relaxing in, thereby increasing awareness and sympathy for those living in the surroundings; and in turn reducing the need for other modes of transport. Exposed natural materials with input of energy/lifetime cost, will be used to keep an airy, spacious feel, complemented by an open floor and use of clean-line forms. Site landscaping would be used to increase the biodiversity of the site, forming new landscapes, to encourage wildlife into the immediate area, including a tiered reed bed system that filters on-site waste and a natural pool providing swimming/bathing recreation whilst reducing water requirements.
Other sustainable features include roof-top solar PV panels for reducing domestic electricity needs, solar-hot water for heating water, a ground source heat pump with horizontally layer ground coils to moderate temperatures via an underfloor heating system, and a wood-burning stove for boosting heating in winter months.
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The aim of this project is to design a sustainable house set within one of six plots of land in Sefton Park landscape for a family of five using the infrastructure of the The Dutch House, by contemporary master Rem Koolhaas, to develop a framework to live and work in. The design must incorporate: work space for the parents design past-times and business; accommodate the taller than average family member heights; a central social family-kitchen-dining experience; make use of solar technologies; provide recycling and storage; renewable, recycled materials; bedroom for the two daughters, aged 6; and a studio/bed for their son, aged 22 and extended guests to stay in with separate entrance. The Dutch House is already within the sustainable domain in that the floor plates are proposed as permanent & immutable and the skin & contents are considered as to be temporal and changeable. The floor slabs also provide a mass which can be utilized as a heat sink with an appropriate design proposal.
Design Rationale
Within my design I have tried to focus on the idea of Permaculture, where the sites qualities will be taken advantage of via using the landscape and its natural cycles, to create human habits and ultimately a low impact lifestyle, where the occupants can be self-supporting. An example of where this is applied in the design is the use of the vegetable peelings storage to allow for creating compost, which will be used to grow food on-site. The layout also aims to encourage connection with the outdoor environment via creating easy access to paths for exercise, and terrace/gardens for relaxing in, thereby increasing awareness and sympathy for those living in the surroundings; and in turn reducing the need for other modes of transport. Exposed natural materials with input of energy/lifetime cost, will be used to keep an airy, spacious feel, complemented by an open floor and use of clean-line forms. Site landscaping would be used to increase the biodiversity of the site, forming new landscapes, to encourage wildlife into the immediate area, including a tiered reed bed system that filters on-site waste and a natural pool providing swimming/bathing recreation whilst reducing water requirements.
Other sustainable features include roof-top solar PV panels for reducing domestic electricity needs, solar-hot water for heating water, a ground source heat pump with horizontally layer ground coils to moderate temperatures via an underfloor heating system, and a wood-burning stove for boosting heating in winter months.
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