Holiday Cabin

ESD Principles Description

• Long thin building promotes high levels of air circulation and allows easy cross ventilation

• Elevate building permit airflow beneath the floors

• North East Exposure to maximum summer breezes

• Cross ventilation through both building axis

• Double roof construction protects against direct sun and reduces heat gain

• Use water feature and swimming pool to cool wind through evaporation; breezes in contact

with water produce evaporation that lowers air temperature

• Renewable energy system such as photovoltaic solar panels to convert solar radiation into

an electric current, which then can be used to power any appliance.

• The holiday cabin has two water systems, a rainwater tank and an electric heat pump that

heats the water.

• Double glazing improves thermal and acoustic insulation

• High level of louvres windows capture sunlight at North East Aspect

• The local vegetation was preserved. No trees were to cut down.

• Rainwater can be collected on a roof to flow through a spout before it is filtered and stored

in a rainwater tank under the building platform for the use of potable drinking and gray

water usages

• Reduce waste production on site: Waste water system (sewerage / septic tank) is placed

under the building, to provide sewerage treatment before to reuse the water for surface

irrigation

• Double skins construction with perimeter sliding panels to the north east side of the

building; to allow light to penetrate each room of the house

• External sun shading device to the western side in order to reduce heat gain through

openings and windows