Solar orientation - south facing roofs can take full advantage of sun.
Retrofit Your Home - Apartment
Think about new design possibilities and fill the blanks with your brilliant ideas about retrofitting this building (hints are given by lines connecting to the installations)
Daylighting - salvaged wood sunscreens cotrol the sun's heat gain and maximize the daylight that the building can harvest.
Salvaged material - 50% of the building is made from salvaged materials which diverted about 160 tons of materials from going into a landfill.
Geothermal wells - allowing building to be 55% more efficient. Read more here.
Pumps and geo-exchange. Heat pumps can take heat from the air or ground and use it to provide space hear or hot water.
Rooftop production garden - plants evaporation and shading wil lower the building temperature.
Greywater reuse for toilet. Rainwater cistern conserves 60% of building water.
Vinyl window with low-E glass. Keep warm air in during the winter and hot solar rays out during the summer. Read more here.
Bicycle parking - encourage active transportation.
Regenerative elevator.
Want to know more about apartment retrofit designs?
1. Brilliant ideas about how to reduce your building carbon footprint and reduce energy consumptions
here
2. Explorations of home energy attributes with different tyopes of buildings here
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