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Green Home Design of Kaneda Residence by Earth Bound Homes Posted: 07 Jan 2011 07:12 PM PST Earth Bound Home has built several green homes. One of them is the Kaneda Residence in California. As a house with green home design by LMS Architects, this house received Green Point Rated of 268 and LEED Platinum certification. This sustainable house belongs to David and Stephania Kaneda, used to be an ordinary old house. This house was design, concerning the green house design concepts to create a net zero energy house and zero carbon emission. This house was designed as a passive solar house with several sustainable technologies involved. Located in suburban area, in one third acre lot, this 2,250 sq ft house features an open and flexible living space, four bedrooms, and home office area. The green construction was done, using conventional building materials and technologies. This house also uses several environmentally friendly products such as a 6.4 kW photovoltaic system as electricity source, 6 solar thermal hot water panels that provides heat source to heat the water and to heat the house at winter, Daikin Altherma Air source heat pump that provides heating without burning anything and no emission, etc. As a passive solar house, the master bedroom and primary living spaces are faced to the south. The house is completed with 1,200 sq ft windows to provide natural sun lighting and heating, also completed with controllable external shades to control the solar gain on summer. It also used colored, finished concrete radiant heat flooring that can be acted as a heat reservoir. R50 ceiling and R23 walls are completed with closed-cell foam and fiberglass insulation. The wooden materials used are FSC certified and free from aldehyde. For water savings and conservation, this green home building is completed by low-flow plumbing fixtures, native landscaping, permeable pavers, and a gray water system that harvests bathroom water for irrigation. The unique design on this house is the integrated heating system used. Hot water produce by the solar heating system is also used to warm the house through the flooring on winter. A pool is used for reducing heating loads in summer. The using of green technology in this environmentally friendly housing became a case study of Zero Net Energy and Carbon Neutral projects for a single family in suburban area. ref

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