An introduction to energy efficient and sustainable housing design for temperate climates as used in a Permaculture Design Certification Course.

1. Housing Design

2. Functions in Sustainable
Housing Design
1) Heating & Cooling
2) Water Harvesting & Drainage
3) Wastewater Management
4) Food Production
5) Energy Production & Conservation
6) Imagination

3. IMPORTANT FUNCTION
Heating & Cooling - BASICS
CONDUCTION: transfer
of energy through solid matter
from particle to particle
CONVECTION: transfer of
heat energy through a gas or
liquid by movement of currents
RADIATION:
electromagnetic waves which
directly transport heat energy
through space
EVAPORATION (not true heat transfer but very useful): when a liquid changes
to a gas it uses up heat and in doing so, cools an object or a liquid in contact with it

4. Heating & Cooling –
THERMAL MASS & INSULATION

5. Heating & Cooling –
PASSIVE SOLAR DESIGN
The temperature of the ground below frost line is a steady
58°F (14°C) all year long.

6. Heating & Cooling –
PASSIVE SOLAR DESIGN

8. Heating & Cooling –
GREENHOUSES

9. Heating & Cooling –
EARTHTUBING & GEOTHERMAL

10. Heating & Cooling –
SOLAR WATER HEATER

11. Heating & Cooling –
COMPOST WATER HEATER

14. IMPORTANT FUNCTION
Water Harvesting
& Drainage

15. IMPORTANT FUNCTION
Wastewater
Management

16. Wastewater
Management –
COMPOSTING
TOILETS

21. Wastewater Management –
WATSON WICK

22. To Sit or Squat…that is the
question?

23. IMPORTANT FUNCTION
Food Production
#6 Food Production

24. Food Production –
VERTICAL
GARDENING &
FARMING

25. Food
Production –
SOLVIVA

26. IMPORTANT FUNCTION
Energy
Production &
Conservation

27. Energy Production –
ENERGY EFFICIENT
COOKING

28. Energy Production –
METHANE DIGESTERS

29. Energy Production –
RETAINED HEAT
COOKING

31. IMPORTANT FUNCTION
IMAGINATION
WE ARE LIMITED ONLY BY OUR IMAGINATION.

32. BEFORE AFTER

34. Designing
from Nature
1) Heating & Cooling
2) Water Harvesting
& Drainage
3) Wastewater
Management
4) Food Production
5) Energy Production
& Conservation
6) Imagination