PIANO HOUSE
PIANO HOUSE
Client Brief
The clients approached us with a site in suburban Adelaide, facing North-West to South-East and asked if a home could be designed to be warm enough in the winter and cool enough in the summer without the area facing due-North.
STATUS: COMPLETED, 2019
LOCATION: GILBERTON, SA
FLOOR AREA: 248m²
PHOTOGRAPHER: SHANE HARRIS
Approach
A beautiful, 8.1 star, 3 bedroom home has been designed to minimize its carbon footprint, allow northern light into the living spaces. This creates a comfortable ambient temperature in the piano room all year round without the need for mechanical heating or cooling.
The double-storey home hosts a piano room and ‘creative corner’ for the artistic clients, invites northern, winter sunlight into the double height kitchen and dining area. Deciduous vines decorate the inner courtyard, adjacent to the dining area to provide summer shading. This approach allows the house to maintain cool temperatures even during extreme heatwaves without relying on the excessive use of air conditioning.
The high quality 6.4kW solar panel array creates free hot water even in the middle of winter while still exporting energy to the grid; essentially the home generates more energy than it consumes making it carbon positive. Combined with quality LED lighting and the latest in energy efficient appliances, the overall energy consumption for the home is significantly less than our clients have been used to in their previous house.
The Piano House has been future proofed against climate change and advancements in technology with a hard wired communication networking throughout the home and provision for an electric car charge point.
