MICROCLIMATIC DESIGN

The following are aspects which are present in St Lucia House design, and are those which I intend to base my cabin design around:

- Innovative Planning
- Passive Climate Control
- Engagement with Landscape
- Economical use of simple materials
- No 'over-decorated' spaces
- Developments of design based on modernist principles
- Considers the element of Nature
- Considers the element of Micro and Macro Climate
- Considers the element of location and orientation
- Spatial sequencing
- Enhanced experiences within "in-side-out-side" spaces
- Works around imposing Natural structures
- Simple plan
- Easily accessed, yet private
- Branches of trees wrapping the facade of the house
- Rhobust and Dramatic


Looking further into Microclimatic Design, the following are aspects which awill be incorporated into my cabin design;

- Passive Cooling and Heating
- Less reliance on mechanical means to create comfortable atmospheres
- Use of vegetation (green roofs, walls, gardens) and water to cool and heat the house
- Shading
- Colour selection
- Building Orientation
- Location of openings/ open spaces
- Design to fit the existing site and landscape
- Chanelling natural ventilation/prevailing winds
- Limit sun exposure on eastern and western facades in summer
- materials with light thermal mass

- Heating naturally with the sun - disiguous trees, windows, openings

"Sustainable development achieves potentially greater levels of energy efficiency through the principles of design for climate and through utilising or influencing local microclimate conditions. It is possible to create a development environment which maintains conditions within human comfort zones without reliance on additional energy for heating and cooling."

SUCCESSFUL CASE STUDY - VIRET, CLAYFIELD, BRISBANE
Source: http://yourdevelopment.org/factsheet/view/id/37

SUN DIAGRAMS ECT:

http://www.toolsforsustainability.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76&Itemid=152