Modern Solar Powered Beach House

Modern Solar Powered Beach House
Solar power is a possible future for power in our homes. Year after year green ideas become stronger and solar power become stronger with them. Too bad that to power a house with solar energy it should be situated in right part of the planet. Zero Energy Design is one of not many studios that add complex solar solutions in their house designs.
Beach house in Truro is one of their works. It was designed to become perfect accommodation of a large family when their living their Boston residence for weekends and summers. There are a lot of bedrooms around the house and many of them have luxury water views. The roof sports a large solar electric array. A battery back-up and energy management system store electricity from the solar array to ensure the basic functions of the home through blackouts without the use of a gas-powered generator. Aside from energy efficient appliances and water heaters lighting system is also designed to be energy efficient
The combination the energy efficient building envelope and systems with the solar array will allow the home to produce as much energy as it uses over the course of a year.

Modern Solar Powered Beach House

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Beach House That Consumes Less Energy Than It Provides

Beach House That Consumes Less Energy Than It Provides
Cannon Beach Residence is designed by Nathan Good Architect with sustainability in mind. It is located on the Oregon beach and provides more energy that it consumes. That is possible because of 5kWh rooftop photovoltaic system and 12-inch-thick concrete walls. There are also solar-thermal tubes that provide hot water and a ground-source heat pump that warms and cools the air. The house is L-shaped and wrapped around Sitka spruce that’s 38 inches in diameter. Recycled materials were used during construction and the house is designed to last multiply generations. It perfectly blends into the forested hillside thanks to its sedum-sprouting green roof. One side of the house has views of Haystack Rock while the other – views of the beach. A lot of windows provide the house with plenty of the natural light. [Nathan Good Architect]

Beach House That Consumes Less Energy Than It Provides

Energy-Efficient Holiday House – Casa Tropical by Camarim Architects

Energy-Efficient Holiday House – Casa Tropical by Camarim Architects
Camarim Architects is a Portuguese company which designed this holiday beach house in Mundaú, Northeast Brazil. It is designed to make owners be closer to nature but protect them from hot and rainfall seasons. 50% of the total house’s area is a open wood-skinned gallery which surrounds all three floors of the house. There are 3 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and 2 kitchens in the house. Almost everything could be accessed through the gallery. The open roof is the place where merging coconut trees, dunes and sea could be viewed all together. Even though the house is quite big absence of the air-conditioning, sun and wind energy generating and gathering and filtering of drinkable water from the roof make house as energy-efficient as possible. [Camarim Architects]

Energy-Efficient Holiday House – Casa Tropical by Camarim Architects

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