To maximize affordability despite the increased building costs of this environmentally sound design, density has been pushed to the limit of what a neighborhood might allow. To make this increased density acceptable to the neighborhood, the design is as energy efficient as possible, and includes a rooftop garden and flower boxes, reminiscent of Arthur Erickson. Lack of parking, will require proximity to a transit route, a covenant prohibiting residents from motor vehicle ownership and street parking for visitors only. This plan, general enough to be scaled any direction, allows nine 400 square foot units on a 30 foot lot.
This entire building is designed without stairs. A glass enclosed ramp on the south side,
allows access to all floors and collects light and heat. Greenhouses on the east and west
sides, warm the building and light the basement. (the floor of the east greenhouse is glass
block) Heat exchangers in every unit, and three larger ones (one at the top of the ramp, one
each in the greenhouses), maintain a comfortable climate in the building, by moving hot air
through an underground heat-sink. Clothes-lines can be in the east greenhouse (west if the
plans are reversed).
The tiny alley suite would be occupied by the operator of the workspace beside it, which
could be an artist's studio, daycare or repair shop, and is three feet below ground level to
minimize shading the neighbor. The roof of this suite/workspace, will be sloped to face the
sun, and covered with fifty square meters of solar water heating panels, which will thermo
siphon nicely into a tank above the suite. The east wall of this building can be covered in
photo-voltaic panels. Wind power could also improve this building's energy foot-print, if
permitted.
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