Passivehouse
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Project • By Lauren Thomsen Design • Individual Buildings
Northern Liberties Passive Rowhouse
Lauren Thomsen Design’s Northern Liberties single-family residence combines craft-driven design and high performance new construction, and aspires to be a model for individual commitment to energy resilience in the 21st century.
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Given the site’s unique context adjacent to a beloved local park, the design team set out to construct a residence that not only solved the programmatic equation, but also was in dialogue with the open space to the south. Study of the building massing led to the decision to set back a portion of the building from the property line. This sacrifices interior living space, but allows for glazing on the southern exposure, provides a visual connection to the park, and allows for a... More
Project • By Cascadia Windows & Doors • Community Centres
825 Pacific Street Passive House
This multi-purpose arts and culture hub, located at 825 Pacific Street, is a seven-storey core-and-shell development which will be operated by a not-for-profit arts organization.
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Project • By Leonardo Llamas • Apartments
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The project in question is a rehabilitation of an old known hotel in the center of the city of Vigo, the Hotel Galicia. It consists of eight luxury homes, three of 226m2, four of 166m2 and one of more than 320m2, and which also has semi-automatic parking on its ground floor and cellar per floor in the basement.
According to the calculations made for the passivhaus certification, the demand for heating is 12kWh/m2y and for cooling 5kWh/m2y. All these resustados have been collected by agreeing the previous study of the solar incidence on the building and its design.
The applied sustainability strategies are associated with the passivhaus principles:
1. Isolation.
The insulation towards the west façade co... More