The Basics Of Sustainable Home Design

When designing a new home for sustainable living standards, a lot of it comes down to common sense. Sustainable home design makes the most out efficiency and knowledgeable material use. So if you are able to design a home while maintaining these attributes, you will end up with a sustainable home.

Passively Designed Homes 

A passively designed home is a design philosophy which makes the most of natural heating and cooling methods. This allows the climate of the home to be easily maintained all year round.

Some of the important attributes that a passively designed home takes into consideration are the orientation, spatial zoning, thermal mass, ventilation, insulation, shading and glazing. These are considered the ‘core’ components by expert home designers.

In particularly hot climates, a sustainable home is oriented so that it excludes the sun from shining into the living spaces. This improves the cross-ventilation that runs through the home, amplifying winter sun and minimising summer sun.