Capturing the deep secretive lush mountain gorges that surround Vancouver in this reference to an aboriginal pit house, it retains heat and pursues privacy in a suburban setting by burying some of the many leftover shipping containers from our busy ports to form the very foundations of it's 111 m2 proposed building floor area. The sounds and images of falling, dripping waterfalls that remind us of BC's temperate rain forest is put to use by watering living plant walls that in turn circulate through aquaponic tanks teaming with locally-bred talapia. In keeping with the 100 - mile localized lifestyle, the home and property produce most of the food needs of a family of four, including poultry and fish. The glass roof utilizes portions of reclaimed glass units, capturing maximum natural daylight as well as harvesting redirected abundant rainwater into cisterns for the home's water needs. Sewage is discharged and filtered through planted reed beds surrounding the edge of the property and since hydro electric power is produced within city limits, local power supplies reclaimed LED lighting and for all the minimal power needs of this residence. With a wood burning cook stove, only one electric burner, cold storage, a small refrigerator and geo-thermal in-floor heating system, this house will undoubtedly fulfill a net-zero energy target, as well as being composed predominantly of locally extracted, harvested and/or manufactured materials. This home is designed to utilize the available natural resources that surround it and to celebrate nature and it's vast provision by bringing the « outside-in. »
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