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Low Budget House Design with Low Maintenance Materials

Category: Architecture

Tags: low budget house, low maintenance house, modern house design

Designed by Giulietti Schouten Architects, its a perfect sample of modern house that built in low budget and low maintenance procedures. Requested by client who would like to create a warm and livable home for all seasons with little to no maintenance and the home must features with a master suite, guest suite, and central home office that could be used as an additional bedroom on occasion, outdoor dining and garden terraces to be viewed and be accessible year-round. The designer choose low maintenance material to built this house such as galvanized metal siding, insulated aluminum curtain-wall windows, exposed interior/ exterior concrete walls, composite veneer wood panel siding and ceiling finishes, exposed steel framing at the roof and window walls. Some of the simple passive and sustainable features used in the design were: rainwater harvesting, solar hot water heating and storage, in-floor radiant heat, cork tile floors, natural day-lighting, expandable spray-on insulation, Individual room controlled HVAC, single-ply membrane roof and low voltage lighting. Its a great and comfortable house design which built in low budget. Via: Giulietti Schouten Architects

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Rainwater Harvesting System Design for Desert Home

Category: Architecture

Tags: desert home design, rainwater harvesting design

The limited water resource and the abundant sonar energy in the desert has prompted the design of a self-sustaining, rainwater-harvesting home. Other main considerations for this design include environmental concerns. In an effort to optimally utilize rain water while keeping groundwater usage at minimal, cistern are used to serve as huge water reservoir from the July rain with enough water volume to meet the yearly need of the house. The effort started with testing for any contaminants in the rainwater sample followed by developing filtration system.

An important design tailored at collecting the rain water is the roof system in which control for the monsoon rain is made possible with gutter collection, downspout, and gabion walls and berms. The roof system in turn direct the accumulated rain water into swales for slower release into the ground.

Rammed earth walls are utilized to offset the huge temperature discrepancy between night and day that is common for desert environments. The walls absorb heat during the day, making it less hot, and release the heat during the night time, thereby making it less cold.

Made easy by the abundance of desert sunshine, a climate-friendly 18 KW solar system specifically designed for the desert winter time provides all of the power it needs including the need to heat the