Passive house la is a project designed by paravant architects and is strategically planned to showcase the back end technologies and benefits of the internatioal passive house standard including home comfort health extremely high efficient energy use and sustainable building practices additionally passive house la is a zero net energy zne home.
Midori house passive house roof.
This 94 year old house is the first certified passive house in santa cruz county.
It follows the journey of chie and kurt as they conceive their ideal green home then put aspiration to action challenging their team to meet the passive house international building standard.
Well to start with the model for their home known as midori house was based on the passive house ph standard that stipulates the home is expected to use 90 less energy than homes currently existing and 75 less energy than the typical new home.
The 1 569 square foot midori haus was remodeled to meet passive house s rigorous standards.
Transformation from old house to green future with passive houseyou will not look at houses the same way after reading midori haus.
Midori haus serves as a journey of adapting learning greening nurturing and caring for an old house by renewing the house to address current and future environmental challenges.
We kept the foundation floor roof most of the framing and the built in furniture and we reused many of the interior accents to honor the look and feel of the craftsman style home.
The narrative is delightfully educational the design process of achieving the passive house standard will be better understood through these stories and.
This standard has been set by the passive house institute.
That meant a roof floor slab and exterior walls super packed with cellulose insulation and mineral wool insulation.
Passive house quiet house.
Our home the midori haus is a bungalow in santa cruz california that was built in 1922 and was remodeled to the ph standard in 2012 and certified by passivhaus institute phi in 2014.