Comments on: 4 Passive Houses by Anders Holmberg

By: Ale

Ale — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:23:20 +0000

Its seems that everybody here is complaining about this project! Not so new ok, but good looking… and mostly a PASSIVE HOUSE! do some of the ppl here know something about a passive house??? Well I am actually studying to pass the CPE exam and I really tell you that is not easy to project a really good passive house… and is not easy to have a good looking and respect all the passive house criteria… I mean that if you are looking for something more “interesting” maybe you could just open any kind of architecture magazine and amaze yourself with fluid wall that seems more water than wall…

By: Cory

Cory — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:28:11 +0000

As a side note, I was hoping you could tell us what software was used in developing the model and construction documents?

Thanks in advance,

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:56:22 +0000

Limiting the type of furniture we use and sacrificing some comfort to maximize space will be a necessary avenue in the future of home design. A passive solar home, in order to work, almost always requires a smaller footprint on the land as well.

As our population grows, at least here in the United States, we will have to learn to build UP not OUT. This is perhaps an over-simplified design–which obviously frustrates some of the Swedes in the room–and is nothing revolutionary in terms of technology. But the argument is not about newness of the design; passive solar design has been around for millennia; it is about the lack of widespread use since things like SIPs and heat exchangers were invented. Here in the U.S. their use is still rather rare. Homes of the future should be minimalistic, simple, and take advantage of technologies old and new so that someday we will find a way to create millions of affordable net-zero energy homes.

By: jag

jag — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:27:43 +0000

i have another thing to add after looking closer at the drawings;
I do not know the english term, but in swedish its called snedtak. I think i might be called sloping roof? Im talking about the bedrooms and the bathroom on the upper level.

I personally have lived i houses with this kind of roof and i can say that it is very frustrating only to be able to stand up straight in half of the room. To acces the shelf in the master bedroom, you will have to crawl. In the bathroom you can barely walk past the toilet without bumping your head into the roof/wall.

This type of rooms also heavily limits the type of furniture you can use. The architect have tried to put to much in to little space. This is, to me, an example where form comes before function.

By: willem

willem — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:22:17 +0000

i love sweden because it is soooh boring …
was this designed for abba? when exactly?
sweden seems well adequately insulated!
stop showing us more passive architects.