The Phoenix (Arizona) city administration, which is the fifth largest city in the United States, were looking for a way of approaching the need for a architecture sustainable and easily accessible to citizens.
With a roadmap designed to transform the city completely zero carbon and zero waste. Encouraging energy efficient construction is part of of the sustainability objectives set by the city.
The city, in collaboration with the American Institute of Architects created a competition for the design of the house sustainable perfect. The contest « Sustainable Home Design «.
The target of the contest was to get a energy house almost null with projects that had to be evaluated by the HERS (US National Standard by which the performance and energy efficiency of a home). He contest called for a HERS score of 30 (The lower, the more efficient is the home), which is 70% lower than the most houses.
The winners of the contest were the architecture firm Marlene Imirzian & Associates Architects, with the project HOME NZ . A low-cost housing formed by a ground floor that houses three bedrooms and with a impressive energy rating in HERS of zero .
From here, the city of Phoenix has made free provision to download the plans free energy efficient house HOME NZ encouraging everyone to build greener homes.
The housing project has a ground floor where all rooms are accommodated. Three bedrooms and three rooms bathroom, living room, kitchen and attached garage with a design pure lines that are really worth highlighting.
The single-family home uses simple forms that are open to the surrounding landscape. Large windows and a porch front of generous dimensions are remarkable elements that manage to improve the link between the garden and the inside the house.
In addition, the design of the house is “flexible”, that is, suitable to be built in the style of semi-detached houses…
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According to the United States Department of Energy… “The most newly built homes have an index HERS of 100, while the average for second-hand homes hand is reaching 130, even higher.”
The HOME NZ project whose development has also been thought in the internationalization of the project, illustrates the importance to consider energy costs – from the size of the batteries to solar panels – and aspects of sustainability throughout the entire design process.
According to the study… “Instead of spending a lot of money in high-efficiency equipment and renewable energy systems, in the beginning, it is much better to spend efforts and resources on bioclimatic design strategies aimed at limiting the energy needs in the normal operation of the houses» .
From our point of view and, although the plans are in English, this is a project that provides detailed information and of quality, showing different techniques for optimize energy efficiency in the home , without detract, that the design of the house is very attractive in Compared to other projects we have come across similar characteristics.
We can access to download the plans from HERE. There is to fill in the form that appears with Name + Surname + Email + Purpose download plans.
Then, a window will appear to download two files; the first is a general summary of the house and some energy efficiency techniques applied, and the second (Because of the file size, it takes a while to download), finding all the plans in detail; from foundations, walls, roofs, technical construction details, etc
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