Winner of the prestigious LAMA award for this design for The Best Eco-Friendly Building
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Timber structure of five storeys
- Passive solar heating; strategic orientation / shading
- Passive cooling ventilation: high thermal mass undercroft
- Passive ventilation by Solar Chimney
- Rainwater management system
- Baubiologie building fabric, of clay timber cellulose etc
- Interior Planting for air quality management
- deciduous shading on pergola trellis work on SE and SW
- gas driven heat pumps / condensing boilers
- sedum and intensive grass roofs
- Interior passive natural ventilation: cellular and open plan while preserving acoustic privacy
- synergy with community-driven self-help organisation
- Building Energy Management System controlling PV solar powered servos on many windows, vents, pumps, dampers, fans to optimise performance; fine tuning of software in the light of several years monitoring
- Active solar thermal hot water system
- Engineered solution to fire safety and evacuation
- long design life approach to exterior and rain screen elements of a building from organic materials, while minimising embodied energy; the trade off required
- double façade and ventilation box windows
- Article by Pirmin Jung in 'Architektur & Technik', May 2008 Switzerland
