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Comment on Passive House Video Tour by garymclain

garymclain — Sat, 19 May 2012 23:20:28 +0000

This is great! how many total square feet is the house?

Comment on Passive House Video Tour by dashrirprock

dashrirprock — Sat, 19 May 2012 22:38:12 +0000

1300 Square feet according to a Yahoo article.

Comment on Passive House Video Tour by cgreacen

cgreacen — Sat, 19 May 2012 22:06:10 +0000

Nice work! Do you have plans to track whether you’re meeting the net zero goals? We live in Common Ground on Lopez Island — also solar (PV + domestic hot water), passive solar architecture community land trust home. We’ve found 4 out 11 households were able to meet net zero goal so far (2 years now).

Comment on Passive House Video Tour by PhilippZ

PhilippZ — Sat, 19 May 2012 21:24:19 +0000

According to an article on ecohomemagazine it’s only $160/sq.ft to build!

Comment on Passive House Video Tour by electrodacus

electrodacus — Sat, 19 May 2012 21:22:02 +0000

One hair drier to heat the house is not a good example average hair dryer is 1600W on high.
According to passive house standards the heating dose not need to exceed 15 kWh/m² per year guess the house is about 120m² so total energy / year for the house need to be 1800kWh
But maybe there is a mild climate there and is fine.
Glad to see someone is building this houses it looks quite similar in design with the one I build some time ago.

Comment on Passive House Video Tour by PolyurethanesMedia

PolyurethanesMedia — Sat, 19 May 2012 20:24:41 +0000

Beautiful house; the passive house standard is definitely the way of the future. Did you use any polyurethane in the home’s insulation? We’re currently building a passive house in Brussels, Belgium to showcase the benefit of polyurethanes in energy efficient housing.

Comment on Passive House Video Tour by FishyCrackurs

FishyCrackurs — Sat, 19 May 2012 19:54:31 +0000

I thought heat load was the amount of heat delivered from all sources in the house, for example people, appliances, etc. and thus the smaller the heat load, the less energy needed to COOL the house.
Here he is talking about the heat load being small, so there is less energy needed to HEAT the house. Can someone explain this to me?

Comment on Organic Architecture, Gaia,Terra Homage by James H. Klippel by kiwisonfire

kiwisonfire — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:00:12 +0000

Mesmerizing Architecture! Truly a hopeful vision for humanity. I want to experience the “living structure-art”. Terra Homage feels as if it is the natural evolution of “Broad Acre City”. Does James H. Klippel have a book out on his organic architecture?

Comment on Organic Architecture, Gaia,Terra Homage by James H. Klippel by Shadapaga

Shadapaga — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:07:44 +0000

They are just building into the landscape it is philosophically and metaphysically very shallow. The earth is only connected to our consciousness through sensory phenomena and our conscious and subconscious interpretations of that. I developed architectures based on deleuzian materialism where you actually interpret architecture as you would the natural world, the architecture is far far better than this cheap sci-fi idea.

Comment on Organic Architecture, Gaia,Terra Homage by James H. Klippel by skipperandcap

skipperandcap — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:35:01 +0000

Dear Shadapoga,
Intellectual and philosophical debate are a healthy means of furthering and advancing human thought. Your comments suggest you are capable of neither. Why overtly berate organic architecture, which grows from the spirit of mankind and life yet uphold Deleuzin, (spelled capitol “D”), which ignores the soul and places the material world above God? As I see no architecuture of yours and only shallow nonconstructive statements, I suggest you are the “shallow” one.