PIANO HOUSE
PIANO HOUSE
Client Brief
The clients approached us with a site in suburban Adelaide, facing North-West to South-East and asked if a home could be designed to be warm enough in the winter and cool enough in the summer without the area facing due-North. Could it be possible?
STATUS: COMPLETED, 2019
Location: adelaide, SA
Budget: $550,000
Floor Area: 248m2
pHOTOGRAPHER: SHANE HARRIS
Thermal Performance Data
Approach
Our response was; yes!
A beautiful, 8.1 star, 3 bedroom home has been designed to minimize its carbon footprint, allow northern light into the living spaces and piano room and provide comfortable ambient temperatures all year round without the need for mechanical heating or cooling.
The double-storey home hosts a piano room and ‘creative corner’ for the artistic clients, invites northern, winter sunlight into the double height kitchen and dining area. Deciduous vines decorate the inner courtyard, adjacent to the dining area to provide summer shading. This approach allows the house to maintain cool temperatures even during extreme heatwaves without relying on the excessive use of air conditioning.
The high quality 6.4kW solar panel array creates free hot water even in the middle of winter while still exporting energy to the grid; essentially the home generates more energy than it consumes making it carbon positive. Combined with quality LED lighting and the latest in energy efficient appliances they overall energy consumption for the home is significantly less than our clients have been used to in their past home.
The home has been future proofed against climate change and advancements in technology with a hard wired communication networking throughout the home and provision for an electric car charge point.
