How You Can Design Your Home to be More Sustainable

[@mrvk39]

I want to add to that Passive Design point. It's not just more sustainable and its' not just to lower your heating/cooling bills. It's also healthier. You have fresh, filtered air circulating continuously through your home. It helps if you have allergies, it helps you to sleep better and function better when you are awake. If you ever visit a Passive House, notice how fresh the air is inside!

[@youbyoubalancedliving9700]

Yes! We designed our house with passive solar (work with Mother Nature) with bedrooms on the east side so we wake up with natural sun light. To me, that is building 101.

[@mrvk39]

@@youbyoubalancedliving9700 awesome! South is the best exposure since you can get enough direct sun light during winters but block it during summers, but East can work too with some screens

[@keithronson2624]

Brilliant! Excellent content and step by step towards sustainability. The homes featured are testament to all you say. Here in the UK we are plagued by shoddy, poor quality developer [therefore profit above all else] building with little or no vision to the future. Hopefully this will change soon. The concept of 'less is more' and not having homes that are simply too big for needs is a vital element to the future of living or lifestyles. Thank You. Appreciated.

[@draztiqmeshaz6226]

Important to note for the northern hemispheric viewers is that up here, SOUTH FACING is what you want for solar gains.

[@bland9876]

What if I want to put my house directly on the equator?

[@anaalves3658]

@@bland9876 🤣 then you get to choose.

[@draztiqmeshaz6226]

@@bland9876 then you wouldn't be too interested in solar gains, now would you? Shade and ventilation in the tropics!

[@pihermoso11]

@@bland9876 if you live in equator the sun will pass from east ,almost be directly overhead at noon, and set at the west, it will happen on both equinoxes.. other than that the angle of change would be 23.5 degrees the sun is leaned more towards north at noontime and 23.5 degrees the sun is leaned more towards the south at noontime(depending on the season), that is the basic path of the sun for homes in the equator...

[@vplph]

Try to get heat in in the morning and store it... avoid overheating at noon. Enjoy the evening sun on your terrace ...

[@MatteoManzi]

Wise words. Unfortunately, most designers seem more interested in creating something that lives up to their egos rather than something that is sustainable, and above all meets human well-being.

[@hub5343]

Unfortunately, most homes aren't designed by 'designers' at all. Instead, project homes (standard plans built by large builders) are the home of choice for almost all home owners, being responsible for well over 97% of total homes constructed. These don't have any of the principles in this video at all, in fact almost the complete opposite, with bad orientation, no ventilation, large footprints (theatres, sub-kitchens, multiple living areas being the norm) and high-energy materials used instead. Architects and designers undeservedly get this opinion, but of course they are only given less than 3% of the market to operate in.

[@MadelynMoore-k4p]

Love it.. simple and efficient communication

[@Soniapalecekfitness]

It's the first day of the new year and I've just created a new 'Saved Under Playlist' called 'home' and this is my first video in it. Very good, thanks a lot! Love your last question on why isn't every home sustainable then - my take on it is cause then we would be well and thriving inside our homes, have minimum bills to run it (most are illegal anyways as it ought to be free) ... love the great awakening! x

[@imadasmone8915]

Love it.. simple and efficient communication

[@lovethatagave]

Really great presentation - thank you.

[@bdawg333]

Great overview, thanks!

[@JudithMirville-Deschanels]

Lloyd Wright style should be a good point of departure to improve upon as for style.

[@juliusarmiento]

hi, I'm a big fan, I'm an architect that really promotes sustainable home design for my clients, is it ok with you if I link this video to my ongoing youtube project? if not it's okay cheers! keep it up

[@SimpleDwelling]

HI Julius, if you're just linking this video, by all means go for it. I ask that you don't download and natively upload it anywhere.

[@bland9876]

I heard that if you get the right kind of electrical heating and cooling device you can heat your house and cool your house off of it more efficiently than using gas such that it's better to turn the gas into electricity and send that to your home.

[@willbass2869]

Did you never take a physics class in school? Smdh

[@SergioMGotts]

Acho que ninguém precisa mais assistir tutoriais ou contratar designers gráficos...bem vindos ao futuro distópico

[@bland9876]

I have a two bedroom two bathroom condo and the rooms are so big I could easily put my bed into my office. The only place where I think that it is too small is the kitchen which I wish they would have made it an open floor plan.

[@Localmomrecipies]

In future, cant' you have it renovated to suit your needs?

[@bland9876]

@@Localmomrecipies I wouldn't know which walls of any were structural.

[@embilbieblimblehead6827]

"why isn't every home sustainable then...?" Oh I hear you Cheap and immediate housing trumps sustainable for so many people, it's the unfortunate reality facing increasingly more people being priced out of the market

[@car6120]

very easy answer for the last question. Architects. Have held the act of building and building design hostage as an 'artform' where they gift us with brutalistic architecture and other useless hideous shit they convince themselves is pretty. Take the artist out of design and put the engineer / craftsman back in and the problem is solved.

[@willbass2869]

*THANK YOU* !!

[@edward11762]

Do you know all sustainable homes they built in New orleans after Katrina? They didn't last 10 years. I worked on one last year. There was no saving the home. All those poor home owners have homes that can't be saved.

[@fragout9575]

That's extremely sad to hear!

[@sampotter4455]

Wouldn't the home be more sustainable if it were not built at all?

[@clairecoutts7832]

And where would the worlds population reside then? A basic human need is shelter

[@fragout9575]

Sustainability went out the window when the suburbs began. World War II brought about the need of a housing boom and farmland became the solution. Car centric design and unfortunately, bigotry also was the driving force behind it. Here in the States, when you speak of anything related to conservation, you're looked down upon. (We) Americans LOVE our cars and city planning and urban development is driven by ignorance, zoning ordinances (both good & bad) and over-priced cookie cutter homes. Add to that, scarcity of water and the inability to capture the rain water for grey use. As long as there are corporate builders, government, at all levels pushing away from sustainability, but uses it as a marketing gimmick, there will never be an affordable, sustainable small home again.

[@MatthewBayard]

Nothing sustainable about burning wood for home heating. Your neighbours will get sick from the smoke too.

[@EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV]

Growing wood takes CO2 from the atmosphere. Burning wood returns some of it, the rest gets buried in your garden as stored biomass and a carbon sink. Sustainable.... :)

[@willbass2869]

You realize that trees absorb CO2 & then sequester it underground, right?? Use a high efficiency wood stove and then plant a couple of trees. That'll do more to fight so-called global warming than buying an EV car

[@clairecoutts7832]

Wood is a renewable resource. Coal and gas are not