Talk about thinking outside the proverbial box! When the going gets cold, the smart sustainability devotees experiment with …. greenhousing a whole structure. Via Ecowatch, meet Marie Granmar and Charles Sacilotto:
The couple recently gave Fair Companies a tour of their “Naturhus” (or Nature House) that’s surrounded by a 4-millimeter pane of glass that cost roughly $84,000 to install.
The Naturhus was built on the site of an old summer house on a Stockholm archipelago and was inspired by Swedish eco-architect Bengt Warne, who was also Sacilotto's mentor.
There are many advantages of living in a greenhouse for this family. Sunlight helps warm the home during the day and residual heat is stored in the bedrock below the house. The roof deck can be used for year-round activities such as sunbathing, reading or playing with their son.
Of course, a couple this dedicated doesn’t only go for the non-obvious extreme—they’ve tackled other sustainability challenges along the way. They collect rainwater for plants and household use, they compost, they grow their own food within the greenhouse. And Sacilotto even designed a sewage system that “begins with a urine-separating toilet and uses centrifuges, cisterns, grow beds and garden ponds to filter the water and compost the remains,” according to Ecowatch.
Check out the Fair Companies video that explores this “Naturhus” in more detail.
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