Proposed
Fitzgerald Passive Solar Home
to be built in a northern US latitude [Maine, Wisconsin, Minnesota...]
Preferred area: Belfast, ME - Latitude: 44.43N, Longitude: 69.01W
Natural Home Photos
construction and
finished home in Colorado
Fitzgerald Floor Plan based on Natural Home
concepts
The sustainable design key for this passive solar, high thermal mass (HTM)
home is construction of floors and walls with high thermal mass materials
- concrete slab and dry stack concrete block walls (no mortar) with surface
bonding cement.
James Kachadorian's Passive Solar
House
- a few illustrations from his book
James Kachadorian's solar retrofit of a
conventional house
We are open to other ideas and all feedback is appreciated. If you have
any, please email
me.
Related Information
SunMar composting "waterless" toilet thenaturalhome.com/compost.html
sun-mar.com
Skaneateles Lake Watershed Composting Toilet Project sun-mar.com/PDF%20Files/SFQ_sp04_Juried.pdf
A 2004 juried article published in "National Small Flows Quarterly" on the implementation and results of a City of Syracuse 69 cottage/composting toilet project.
Gravel-less Drywell Kits [numerous shown installed for one house] thenaturalhome.com/compost.html
for disposing of storm water roof runoff, gutter, driveway, sidewalk & yard water
thenaturalhome.com/drywellinstallation.htm |