High Design meets High Performance - a short tour of 4 PH projects in Italy and Austria. Goldmine behind links.

1. PASSIVE HOUSE MODERN
Images: Bronwyn Barry: Weisenseer factory, PH multi-family, straw bale cottages - Austria
High Performance + High Design
Eye-candy for architects and designers
An armchair journey to share my travel carbon footprint
A selection of recently visited projects built to the Passive House Standard
Bronwyn Barry | 2012

2. Meet a few others on the bus
Michael Tribus
http://www.michaeltribus.com/
Ernst Heiduk
http://www.hausderzukunft.at/results.html/id6120
Bjorn Kierulf
http://www.createrra.sk/aktualne/aktualne.html
Ludwig Rongen
http://www.rongen-architekten.de/
Helmut Krapmeier
http://www.energieinstitut.at/?sID=392
Olaf Reiter
http://www.reiter-architektur.de/

3. Wherethefeck are we?
Images: www.googlemaps.com, Bronwyn Barry

4. More specifically:
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5. New multi-family project, Bolzano
Images: Bronwyn Barry

6. Certification required in contract
Architect: Michael Tribus, www.michaeltribus.com
Interesting fire & thermal separation details
4 separate Units, underground parking
Images: Bronwyn Barry

7. Office Building, Bolzano
Architect: Michael Tribus, www.michaeltribus.com
Images: Bronwyn Barry & www.michaeltributs.com
1st Office Building PH in Italy, 2005
Originally a Post Office, c.1954

8. Certified CasaClima Gold
Images: Bronwyn Barry

9. Straw Bale Cottages, Lana
Images: Bronwyn Barry

10. Plans and details
Architect: Werner Schmidt with Margareta Schwarz
3 Rental cottages with 1 common room
Load-bearing straw bale built in 4 months, 2006
Images: Bronwyn Barry
Info: www.atelierwernerschmidt.ch

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13. Hidden under vines
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14. Weissenseer Factory, Greifenburg
Images: www.wissenseer.at website image

15. Images: www.wissenseer.at website image, www.wiinmann-partner.com

16. Weissenseer Factory Details
Passive House Office & Factory, courtyard and ‘worlds
smallest factory’
Images: Bronwyn Barry: Weisenseer factory, Austria
Waste heat from compressors in factory re-used as under
floor heating, backup source is District Heating
Architect: unknown
Builder: Weissenseer

17. Row Houses, Patriasdorf, Lienz
Architect: Peter Jungmann
17 Terraced units built from 2003-2008
PHPP- HD: 8.80 kWh/m2a, HL: 8.7W/m2, ACH 0.6 1/h
Info: http://www.hausderzukunft.at/results.html/

18. Unfinished Larch cladding

19. Offset concrete carport & balcony

20. Thank you!
We’ve only scratched the surface…
http://scheicher.at/
http://www.architekt-unterrainer.com/index.php?
content=projects&post_id=90
Bronwyn Barry | 2012

21. Now for a few here in the US
Image credit: The Jewel Box Passive House by the Artisans Group www.artisansgroup.com