Integrates solar architecture with a food-producing landscape in a cohousing community.
Property
- Owner:
- Hilde Maingay & Earle Barnhart
- Type:
- Residential
- Address:
- 28 Common Way , Hatchville, MA 02536
- Size:
- 1,811 sq ft
- Event Participation:
- NESEA Green Buildings Open House 2012 Host
- NESEA Green Buildings Open House 2013 Host
Technology
- Type:
- Solar Space Heating
- Installed:
- January 1999
What You Need to Know
Description:
Thermal solar for domestic heat and hot water PV Daylighting features throughout the house Waterless Eco-Toilets Passive solar greenhouse attached to house Metal roof for rain water catchment and solar reflection
Open House Info:
The Cape Cod Ark-House is a combination of a energy-efficient, ecological, solar house and a passive solar bioshelter, set in a food-producing landscape, and surrounded by a planned cohousing community. Includes PV's, total-house day-lighting, compost toilet, rain collection, bioshelter, chickens, intensive food garden.....We will be open 10 AM - 3 PM 10:00 - 12:30 pm Open House and available for Q&A, including residential wind turbine at adjacent Coonamessett Farm 12:30 - 1:00 pm Workshop Eco-Toilet Technologies 1:00 - 1:30 pm Workshop Landscaping for energy efficiency, food and sustainability 1:30 - 3:00 pm Open House and available for Q&A
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