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  • From: Paul Cereghino <paul.cereghino@comcast.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] "hibernation design"
  • Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 14:50:16 -0700

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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