The Lighthouse, Sustainable Homes from London

The construction industry has an insatiable appetite for energy and natural resources has many emerging architects to zero waste, zero emissions, zero energy and gate-source in their design – but everyone needs to a good example to help them achieve their goals. The lighthouse, a show on the field at home in London, has the potential to make a big impact on the practice of sustainable architecture because of its minimal impact on the planet to do.

Designed by Sheppard Robson for the Building Research Establishment (BRE), the lighthouse brings together a number of advanced technologies at the highest level to meet the Code for Sustainable Homes – a new set of sustainability criteria that should satisfy all new homes by 2016th in England he joined the 40 degrees sloping gable roof with a PV system with high performance structural insulated panels (SIP), attractive wooden and mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (HR) to maintain a uniform temperature inside. The internal standard was also inverted, placed on the ground floor with bedroom and living areas above. It sunlight busiest maximum room for the double-height windows and a skylight roof.

Perhaps the function of the lighthouse, but the CATCHER WIND – a low-tech, passive cooling, which was thousands of years but it is rarely in the new building. Originally designed and oasis towns in Persian, the device operates like a chimney.

WIND Catcher is a traditional vertical vacuum, as a good air, brick, stone or other building materials base. It passes through the center of a house on the roof to the basement. On each floor, the shutters can Windcatcher has openings that are opened or closed as needed, depending on the season. As part of windows on the exterior of the house, with doors in the central hall, which is a good served residents Windcatcher directly manipulate the flow of air entering and leaving the house – and it is not necessary electricity.This to use the process creates a kind of personal weather system, sending cool breezes from the center of the house (where the CATCHER WIND draws cooling air over the roof) or scattering of hot winds through the structure (if it sucks the hot air inside). Of course, by gradations of temperature up and down on it as a prevention, air conditioning self-regulation.

Wind sensors can also be used in tandem with underground rivers. Air passes over the super-cool groundwater to create a cool microclimate of life, the effect is so intense that, long before the advent of electricity, coolers might work – even in summer. The cityof Iran Yazd, located, for example, at the confluence of two deserts, is famous for its huge towers windcatching dominating the skyline of the city. Many of these sit on vaulted cistern, or Anbar, where the cooling water can be stored for several seasons. The ice production was discontinued in these structures on the basis of the bacterium, but tank inside is always useful in a desert climate.