Architecture of an energy-efficient house

Heating costs for a typical home account for 2/3 of the cost of maintaining it. When looking for solutions that will reduce the expenses for this purpose, many investors decide to build an energy-efficient building. Saving energy is fostered, among othersenergy-efficient house architecture.

Architecture of an energy-efficient house

Architecture of an energy-efficient house

Beach tioning of building a house is the first stage where the focus should be on solutions aimed at reducing costs for maintenance of the building. Demand for a house for heat can be reduced already at the stage of project preparation. An important role in limiting heat loss and obtaining energy from solar radiation is fulfilled, among other things, by the proper shape of the building. What should the energy-efficient house architecture characterize?

Energy-saving house - building's shape

By giving the shape of the house the right shape and in a thoughtful way placing the glazing in the external walls, you can reduce the building's demand for energy for heating. From the point of view of energy efficiency, buildings with a compact body are the most advantageous. Their A / V ratio, i.e. the area of ​​all external partitions, i.e. walls, roofs, floors on the ground to the building volume, should be low. The walls of an energy-saving house and its roof should have as few refractions as possible. Ideally, the architecture of an energy-efficient house should be characterized by simplicity. It is good that it should be built on a rectangular plan, and its roof should be gabled or pitched. Simplicity of house architecture should also consist in avoiding dormer windows, bay windows, attics, cornices, and thus elements contributing to the increase of the surface of the external partitions. It is also better to abandon the terraces above the rooms, and if they are to appear, make sure that they are properly insulated and that their construction took place using modern systems, reducing the risk of thermal bridges, and thus places of heat escape from the building.

The elevation with the largest area in which the largest glazing is located is located on the southern side. This will allow for greater passive solar gain, which in the cold months will warm the interior of the house. This solution can significantly contribute to reducing heating costs.

Energy-efficient house design

An important issue is also the appropriate arrangement of rooms in the home saving energy. It is most advantageous that interiors that maintain a relatively high temperature are located from the south, while those that do not require heating from the north (garages, pantries). Warm rooms should also be separated from cold rooms with rooms of moderate temperature like bedrooms or corridors. Against the large glazing, internal barriers are located that are able to accumulate solar heat during the day and give it away at night.