permaculture

[Paul Cereghino <paul.cereghino@comcast.net>]

All our entrances and exist pass through transition rooms, that reduce 
heat loss through doors.  This creates a feeling of separation between 
the core and the outside.  If you have air-lock style design I would 
suggest making one of the two sets of doors truely openable, like shoji, 
or double pocket doors, or french doors that you can really tuck away... 
so that you can have more fluid connections to the outside during the 
warm months.

Since our house is well insulated, the waste heat for our hot water 
heater provides quite a bit of winter warmth.  Not that I love our 
wasteful water heater... but it makes me think about bringing all waste 
heat generating appliances into the core.

Designing for light penetration would be important.  I am imagining 
having areas with a single wall from the core to the outside could be in 
protected bright courtyards... summer wings that create protected 
places.  I bet watching out for snow drift patterns would be important 
too...

~Paul Cereghino

Stephanie English wrote:

> Greetings friends,
> Has anyone out there built, or owned, a home that is designed for winter
> "hibernation" -- sealing off summer sections of the house to conserve heat
> in a smaller core space for the wintertime?  I'd like to hear about your
> design, see photos, get recommendations on what works and what doesn't, etc.
>
> Stephanie in chilly western NY/PA
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