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Bella Vista Eco-Style

New Zealand > Auckland > Hauraki Gulf & Islands > Waiheke Island

Stunning eco-home designed by Johann Bernhardt of the BBE (Building Biology and Ecology Institute). Built of the highest class materials with panoramic views of the Hauraki Gulf from every level. Featured in February 2010 Good Magazine as an outstanding example of a sustainable stylish hom...

Crows Nest: Eco lifestyle close to city

New Zealand > Northland > Whangarei > Riverside

Fully sustainable, architect designed on lifestyle block only 3.7km from Whangarei city center. Totally off the National Grid and self sustainable in all respects. It's 2 storied house with a large workshop area in breeze way. Kitchen as a farmhouse parlour and doubles as a dining/ kitch...

Strawbale House and Business - Borderland Cherries and Saffron

New Zealand > Canterbury > Waimate

LIFESTYLE and INCOME! The property is situated in a popular and growing area of Waimate and has lovely rural views. The property is level and rectangular in shape with good shelter from poplar trees on SW and NW boundaries. There is ample carparking plus carport and an attractive brush fe...

Restored 1930's 3bdrm bungalow on 3 acres

New Zealand > Bay Of Plenty

Fully restored 3 bdrm eco-friendly home on 3 acres of semi-organic land with native bush This 1930s bungalow has been meticulously restored by its present owner and features extensive use of native timbers from the polished floors to the hall panelling and stunning bathroom vanity. Soli...

Straw Bale Residence

New Zealand > Canterbury > Geraldine

This hybrid, 123 square meter straw bale home is nestled in a back section in the town of Geraldine. Owners, designer Sarah Johnston, and builder, Sven Johnston, decided to blend their past experiences to create their first home together. The overall intent was to design and build a warm, ...

Grey Stone - Sustainable Eco House

New Zealand > Auckland > Papakura & Franklin District > Ramarama

Updated Power Inputs Date Sunday May 9, 2009 Solar PV Source Sunnyboy Controller 9/3/08 7.2 kWh Best 8.17 kWH SkyStream Wind Turbine Source Skystream Controller 13kWh Best 24kWh Solar Thermal Source Steca TR0704 Controller Best Daily Output 178kWh March ...

Art Deco made Environmentally Sustainable - KAHURANGI, 2006

New Zealand > Auckland > Auckland City Area > Mt Eden

Designed by Heritage Design Group ph 09 620-1939 http://www.hdg.co.nz/ As an architecture practice promoting sustainability, we felt it was important to ‘walk the talk’, so in 2006 we embarked on the ambitious project ...

Modern Design & Passive Solar Mudbrick House in Nelson (Under Construction)

New Zealand > Nelson/Tasman > Nelson

MAEDER & WIEGAND HOUSE Wakapuaka, Nelson 3 bedroom house with load-bearing adobe walls and timber framed top storey. Contemporary simple eco-design incorporating passive solar principles, Solar Water Heating, Composting Toilet and Rainwater Collection. Special Feature: Ex...

This house may be for sale. What would you offer for it?

New Zealand > Auckland > Papakura & Franklin District

Sustainable features of the house: Conservatory for the collection of the sun’s energy Passive solar design Complemented by high insulation and double glazing Solar water heating Renewable materials Natural finishes Eco wood burner with wetback Rainwater collection Sustainable o...

Energy Efficient house

New Zealand > Otago > Queenstown > Frankton

Modern contemporary sunny house, built by designer for own family home, making best use of site for sun and stunning views. The 4 year old house is one block away from Frankton Village's cafe's and restaurants yet tucked away with privacy, peace and quiet. Recycled timber on top floo...

Kaimata Croft

New Zealand > West Coast > Greymouth

We have just started building our workshop and are in the process of applying for consent for the house. The workshop is a ribraft insulated floor, lawson cyprus untreated timber frame with Terra Lana wool and polyester insulation and a lime plaster coasting inside and out and a roof of tr...

Powered Living Passive Solar House

New Zealand > Nelson/Tasman > Nelson

The house is built to integrate Helen's specialist knowledge of passive solar home design with architectural style - the first impression you get is that this house is not lacking anything in the beauty department. Then as you look closer and listen to Helen describe the features you come ...

Architectural Hybrid Homes

New Zealand > Nelson/Tasman > Nelson > Nelson South

We have done it! The first Hybrid Home in Nelson is now completed and is available for viewing. Can you imagine a monthly power bill so small you get excited when it arrives? Can you imagine a home built with your family’s total comfort in mind - bright, open spaces using energy efficie...

Studio Apartment

New Zealand > Auckland > Waitakere City > Ranui

Studio Apartment. Beautifully finished apartment with rammed earth walls, macracarpa timber finishings and a mezzanine loft bedroom. This apartment is a delight to live in, with solar heated water and access to tank and town water supplies. Become part of a truly lovely and supportive e...

A self supporters home - For Sale - $315,000

New Zealand > Northland

Situated in the Kohatu Toa Eco Village, this home and land is designed to feed a family for the entire year. It has a well established and organic orchard, sub tropical orchard, and vegetable gardens in good heart. There are three different living spaces - The main house, a double bedroom ...

Taupo Ebode

New Zealand > Waikato > Taupo

TAUPO HOUSE – ECO HOME BY EBODE – TRULY SUSTAINABLE HOMES www.ebode.co.nz BRIEF: This 1960s board & batten home was essentially a ‘bach that grew’ – and included undesirable features such as a huge South-facing deck that was never used; large S...

Waipu cove Ebode

New Zealand > Northland > Waipu Cove

Ebode prototype - WAIPU COVE BACH, 2007 For this elevated section overlooking Waipu Cove, our clients wanted a modest home in the 'kiwi bach' tradition, designed with environmentally sustainable principles and using materials and detailing to reflect the coastal location. The result...

Self-sufficient Mobile Home

New Zealand > Wellington

All home comforts neatly arranged in a warm, cosy, self-sufficient mobile home. The 'Little Cracker' woodburner cooks, and heats water. Wool insulation keeps the bus toasty for hours - or open the doors and/or roof vents to cool down. King single bed is natural latex covered with wool, and...

Rolleston House

New Zealand > Canterbury > Rolleston

Sustainability and energy efficiency of this home were priorities for the owners, migrating from England. The design by Bob Burnett Architecture won the Sustainability Award in the 2008 ADNZ Resene Regional Design Awards. It also won the Bathroom Award and it was a finalist in other catego...

Westrend House

New Zealand > Auckland > Waitakere City > Glen Eden

This house is featured in the environmental section of the July/August edition of Homestyle magazine. I can email you the article if you wish. It is basically a standard 4 bedroom home but I have tried to build it with an environmental conscience. Floors are all New Zealand grown Eucalypt...

Atawhai

New Zealand > Nelson/Tasman

BRIEF The design responds to site conditions and energy efficiency. Orientation maximises solar gains and sea views from each room. A double height sunspace is at the core of the home LOW ENERGY CONCEPTS -Modern Family home with passive solar and high energy efficiency -Passive S...

Combine Cornerstone Building systems INSULATION,Hot water & space heating for LOW ENERGY home.

New Zealand > Canterbury > Southbridge

Sustainability, using the Cornerstone Building system and the Te WERA boiler for hot water and the minimal space heating…..our home was definitely that. We fully intended building a straw bale home and Chris had been on the straw bale building course all ready to go, until Chris met Danie...

Eco Friendly / Hybrid Home in Nelson / Tasman

New Zealand > Nelson/Tasman > Nelson > Tahunanui

Another full hybrid home has just been finished! This stunning property is located in one of the most desirable areas in Nelson and has full hybrid and eco features. We have gone the extra mile to sourse as many eco/sustainable building products as we can find, with some of them being used...

Cornerstone Licencee,Future Homes NZ wins 2 NZ NATIONAL AWARDS

New Zealand > Waikato > Taupo

“Cornerstone Building System”, Taupo Licencee wins DBH Gold award for best sustainable home under $500,000 for National Award 2008 after winning the Taupo District Gold medal. To add to this prize was the National award for the "Pink Batts Best Energy Efficient home" STOP PRE...

Off Grid Eco-Stay

New Zealand > Marlborough

This a traditional house that is completely off the grid, powered by Solar and a Micro-Hydro and featuring the first domestic Biolytix Sewage installation in New Zealand. We desired to prove to ourselves that a more traditional form of building can still be enviromentally friendly usin...

Green Bay renovation

New Zealand > Auckland > Waitakere City

The house started as a cottage, was added to over the decades, and received a major eco-renovation when the present owner took it over in 1998. A thermal mass conservatory was added and insulation was installed in the ceiling, some new walls, and underfloor. Solar waterheating, grid-tied P...

Gorgeous Kauri Bungalow

New Zealand

10 years of hard work has turned this traditional kauri bungalow into something special. Originally located in Portland (20 mins north of Waipu) this imaculate old lady was transported to its present site in Waipu Village and transformed into a work of art. Complete with artist studio, ...

The Solabode Affordable Eco Home

New Zealand

UPDATE Feb 2010: This experimental concept home was designed to stay comfortable without a heater for 3 to 4 days of cloudy weather in winter after a sunny day or two, the large areas of thermal mass balanced by large areas of north glazing certainly achieved this although at additional co...

Kauritatahi farm

New Zealand > Bay Of Plenty

House is currently under construction by owner. Incorporates traditional post & beam construction using locally grown Lawson Cyprus timber and Rotorua manufactured Timbercrete block walls. Will feature good passive solar design, solar panels and wood stove boiler water heating, double glaz...

Passive solar lifestyle block

New Zealand > Wellington > Masterton

2 water sources - rural water scheme for house which is gravity feed so does not require pressure pump. Creek running through property for garden and animals. North facing to maximise sun. Minimal glazing on southern side to reduce heat loss. Mezzanine floor to provide additional sleepin...

Laba Residence - Dunedin Eco Home - Solar, wind etc

New Zealand > Otago > Dunedin > St Clair

A residential dwelling located at Mission Cove, Company Bay on the Otago Peninsula was designed as a solar passive energy conserving home for Mike and Edith Laba. The design process began in May 2004. The principal requirement was for the dwelling to be energy efficient, environmentally fr...

Rod Percival Green Show Home

New Zealand > Waikato > Coromandel

WILL YOU BE DISSAPOINTED TO FIND THIS PROPERTY SOLD FOR A PRICE YOU COULD AFFORD? Immaculate, healthy award winning eco show home must be sold at auction June 10 2009, this could be incredible value for money. This beautiful home was built by award winning builder Rod Percival to de...

Papakowhai Renovation project - House 3

New Zealand > Wellington > Porirua > Papakowhai

House 3 is one of the Papakowhai Renovation project success stories. Household winter power bills for the family of five reduced by 33% with 62% saved on space heating. Average winter temperatures rose by 1.7°C and 3.8°C in living areas and bedrooms respectively, with fewer unhealthy tempe...

Devonport Lohas Home

New Zealand > Auckland > North Shore City > Devonport

An eco-friendly, self-contained stand-alone, modern two bedroom accommodation. Designed by a leading environmentally-focused architect, Johann Bernhardt of Equinox Design. Built using renewable materials, this well-insulated house is powered by renewable energy supplied by Meridian, wi...

Whareuku (Earth House)

New Zealand > Waikato > Rotorua

The whareuku, or earth house, is built on Maori land in Rotoiti as part of research from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Auckland to develop a low-cost rammed earth housing solution that is accessible and provides an adequate standard of living. The house is built on a ...

Kapiti Off Grid

New Zealand > Wellington > Otaki

3 bed, 2 bath, 142sqm replica twin-gable villa. FSC-sourced rusticated weatherboard. UT pine framing (internal). 60,000L roofwater capacity. Membrane water-filtration over UV (zero power vs 130W always-on). 20mm Argon double-glazing with timber double-hung sash joinery. Blackwater pumped t...

Eco-Village Mudbrick Studio For Sale

New Zealand > Auckland > Hauraki Gulf & Islands > Waiheke Island

There is a Share up for re-sale in our Eco-Village!! You could purchase a 1/15th Share of 169 Hectares This would give you 1 hectare (2.5 acres) for your personal use which includes the following improvements: Extensive Vegetable Gardens and Native Border Plantings. Fire Woo...

Kokomuka Green Home

New Zealand > Otago > Portobello

This stunning architecturally designed home has been built to be ecologically benign and energy efficient. It uses solar water heating, has extra-deep wall cavities with natural wool insulation and all windows are double-glazed. It uses a passive solar designed via an insulated concrete fo...

Energy Efficient Architecture

New Zealand > Waikato

Three bedroom passive solar energy efficient family house. Designed by Milti Stefadouros and Duncan Firth of Poweredliving North Island. The project brief was to design a family house which primarily conserved energy and would require no mechanical means of heating thus eliminating ...

Westmere house - a new urban sustainable home by ebode

New Zealand > Auckland > Auckland City Area > Westmere

ebode has just begun building the first urban sustainable home in the inner-city suburb of Westmere, right in the heart of Auckland City - demonstrating that sustainable designs can be perfect for urban environments too. This house will use a grid-connected, photovoltaic system to gener...

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