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Efficient homes

  • Tinos ecolodge – construction process

    The mission of Tinos Ecolodge is to achieve the self-sustaining status. From the initial design and research of the different environmental technologies the team went to the implementation through a fairly…

  • Two bioclimatic lodges on Tinos, Greece

    Tinos Ecolodge is far away from centralised networks for power, water, waste and waste water. These circumstances combined with the owners’ philosophy for a better, ecological, economical and sustainable solution, has…

  • Timber-frame terraced Passive Houses in Darmstadt

    On the occasion of the upcoming Conference on the Passive House, I would like to write about the German architect Georg Zielke, who will lead the Open Forum “Passive House: an…

  • When Passive house meets traditional architecture

    I was really excited to come across the first Greek Passive house, a three semi-detached houses designed and built by XG group, in the suburbs of Volos. Walking around the neighborhoods of…

  • Wohnsinn eG, a co-housing project in Darmstadt

    While finding my way to the world’s first Passive house, I discovered WohnSinn 1 and its expansion WohnSinn 2, designed by architect Petra Grenz, faktor10 GmbH. This multi-story apartment complex is…

  • World’s first Passive House in Kranichstein, Germany

    On my last trip I visited Darmstadt, a German city located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Metropolitan Region. So, as an architect specializing in ecofriendly building design, I could not miss…