Zero Energy House

...a house that is healthy, comfortable and pleasant to live in...

Project Goals

Our overall ambition is to build a house that is healthy, comfortable and pleasant to live in with minimal impact on the environment during construction, throughout it's functioning life and in it's disposal. We want a house that suits our lifestyle and reflects our values. When we look back at the decisions we made when designing the house we want to feel that we made the right decisions with respect to the changes that we believe will happen with to the climate, and with energy.

The design opportunities matrix below maps the project goals with the design features of the house that can effect these goals.

Website Goals

We believe there are some very compelling reasons why these goals are important and we encourage others to consider if these reasons are relevant or important to them. Through this website we will communicate why we are building a zero energy house, the design decisions that we have made and why we have made them. We have licensed most of the content of this site under a non commercial creative commons licence, please have a read of the website terms of use. We hope that you can learn from, apply, debate and build upon our project and lessons learnt.

If you have any comments or suggestions to improve the website then please let us know. The website is evolving and will continue to as the project progresses. 

The design notes in the top menu bar will evolve as the project progresses.

Design Opportunities Matrix

The design opportunities matrix forms the basis of the site, it communicates the goals of the projects and the design features that influence these goals. The sections of the website listed in the top menu bar are evolving and details on the design initiatives will be added to these sections as we develop the design and build the house.