Home for Life is a Danish house designed to be energy positive. It produces more energy annually from solar panels and a heat pump than it consumes. Sensors and an intelligent control system regulate temperature, humidity, and lighting to create a healthy indoor environment with minimal energy usage. Large windows positioned to maximize daylight let nature illuminate the interior while meeting half the home's heating needs. The design and materials optimize renewable energy collection, allowing the house to meet all energy demands through solar and natural solutions while being carbon neutral.

1. HOME
FOR
LIFE
DENMARK

2. HOME
FOR
LIFE ARCHITECTS AREA Year
AART
Architects 200 m² 2008

3. HOME
FOR
LIFE
ENERGY
INDOOR
CLIMATE
ENVIRONMENT

4. HOME
FOR
LIFE
Home for Life is inspired by a traditional Danish 1 1/2-storey
saddle roof house. This type of home has a relatively small
surface with many possible variations.

5. HOME
FOR
LIFE
ENERGY
ENERGY:
Home for Life produces more energy than it consumes. With an
energy surplus of 9 kWh/m2/year, it takes approximately 40 years
for the house to generate the same amount of energy that was
used to produce its building materials. At that point, the house
will have returned more to nature than it consumed. A solar heat
pump and 7 m2 solar collectors generate energy for heating and
hot water, while 50 m2 solar cells generate more electricity than
the home consumes.

6. HOME
FOR
LIFE
INDOOR
CLIMATE
INDOOR CLIMATE:
Sensors that register heat, CO2 and humidity in all rooms and an
outside weather station are combined with an intelligent control
system to ensure that the house adjusts to the family’s need for a
healthy, comfortable indoor climate. Automatic window opening
mechanisms let in fresh while sensors turn off lights when you
leave the room. These factors combine to create a home with a
very low level of energy consumption

7. HOME
FOR
LIFE
ENVIRONMENT
ENVIRONMENT:
Window openings are situated to let in daylight from at least two
angles in each living space. The window area of the building is 40
percent of the total floor area – twice the area of a traditional
house. The openings let in nature, illuminate the rooms, optimize
the flow of fresh air and generate spatial experiences indoors and
out. While the home is being heated, half of the required heat
comes directly from the sunlight that enters through the windows.
All rooms have direct access to the outside.
With its design, orientation and materials, Home for Life is
optimised to use as little energy as possible and to utilise forms of
renewable energy. The house interacts with the local energy
supply and structure. It covers all of its energy requirements
primarily by collecting solar energy and converting it into heat
and electricity through a combination of natural solutions and
advanced technology – making the house CO2-neutral.

8. HOME
FOR
LIFE
ENVIRONMENT

9. Thank you
Presented to : DR. Ahmed Nasr
Presented by : Mohand HAshem