Tohunga pre and post make over
http://unheimlichblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/tohunga-pre-and-post-make-over/
To make this house more resource efficient and increase social and natural capital, the following ideas will be shown in detail: extensive and intensive gardens which create new biodiversity which attracts wildlife to the urban environment, green wall based on biophilic design, use of low VOC paint, increase natural light with skylights, create energy with solar panels, manage heat and ventilation with a conservatory using louvers, insulation of ceiling and walls for warmth and noise reduction, radiation of warmth with a trombe wall, planting to pre-cool air, give wind protection and filter particulates in the city air, create nutrient-rich soil by composting and use of a worm farm, re-clad interior of kitchen and stairs with bamboo, use a living machine to decontaminate water waste with microbes, store rain in a water tank for irrigation and convert the garage into a one-car household and have the other half for easy bike storage.
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