Article source: Kikuma Watanabe

This home in Japan is passive house in where a sundial is set. By adapting the passive system the internal spaces support a comfortable environment where in summer it is naturally cool and in the winter it is warm. This ecological technology aids this passive system using the sun and the wind for an effective air conditioner.

view from north, Image Courtesy © Kikuma Watanabe

• Architects: Kikuma Watanabe
• Project: Home between Earth and Sky-Passive House with Sundial
• Location: Kasugaoka, Heguri, Ikoma district, Nara pref, Japan
• Photography: Kikuma Watanabe
• Software used: Cad soft, Vectorworks
• Firm: D Environmental Design System Laboratory
• Leading architect: Kikuma Watanabe
• Design team: Tetsuo Kataoka 
• Structure: Syunya Takahashi+ D Environmental Design System Laboratory
• Construction: Fushimi builder’s office
• Site area: 357.41m2
• Building area: 98.87m2
• Total floor area: 143.97m2 (1st floor area 95.74m2, 2nd floor area 48.23m2)
• Project year: 2015

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