Designing the Home

The way that I went about in designing the home for a family in a township areas in Cape Town, was that I knew that most families live with relatives therefore it needed to have at least two separate bathrooms and various bedrooms. Considering it’s going to have large accommodations the home is somewhat spacious but small enough so that most people can afford the home In mild climates where winter are very cold and summer temperature are not extremely high, a non-compact shape cross ventilation. It’s also small enough so that the sunroom is providing most of the warmth circulate around the home.

There are trombe walls, and sunroom for effective passive heating. Most of the windows are facing northing, where it’ll be exposed my sunlight. I also implemented a half wall separating the sunroom area that consists with thermal mass for the winter, because then the thermal mass on the interior absorbs and stores solar radiation. The green roof is used to cool and warm the home, while in summer the green roof shades the home, and while in winder the soil is served as added insulation. The building will be faced south for better solar heating that is required in winter. The point of having many of these passive solar strategies is to minimize the use of electric heating or cooling.

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