ELEMENT:
A new ecologically sustainable urban development.
AIM:
The Healthy Home Project is an attempt to demonstrate how a new, suburban
house, can achieve a high level of environmental sustainability by employing
environmental strategies.
STRATEGY:
The project aim of producing an environmentally sustainable urban development
has been achieved in the from of an environmental prototype, single residential
dwelling constructed on the Gold Coast, Australia.
The design process was collaborative and involved a wide range of project
partners who provided expertise with respects to strategies such as improved
air quality, passive solar design, energy production and the selection
of low energy materials.
The project challenges existing norms of house design and legislation
concerning the on-site reuse of resources such as water and the collection,
purification and use of rainwater.
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