Eco factor: Eco-friendly home with sustainable energy generating features.
The Fakro House by Tim Stephens incorporates vernacular building design with sustainable energy generating features to create a beautiful rural-modernist retreat in the Whangaripo Valley, New Zealand.
The project contemplates an eco-friendly home with integrated passive energy systems. Made from modern timber and metal cladding the house features insulated external walls and a pitched roof with solar/ photovoltaic panels to generate energy from sunlight.
The house designed in two levels has spacious floor space and flexible living area. It has strategically placed skylights to allow plentiful penetration of natural light. More so the design deliberately rules out exterior structure at places to establish a visual connection inside out. This also facilitates great site viewing of the beautiful valley from the house itself.
Via: ArchDaily
