How You Can Design Your Home to be More Sustainable

How do you achieve a sustainable home? Is it the orientation, materials, and all the technology, such as solar panels, or is it simply doing less? Sustainable architecture is about working with the environment, not against it, to reduce its negative impact on the environment.

In this video, I talk about five key design principles for a sustainable home, from passive design to materials, and how sustainability does not need to be complex; but rather, a simple approach can result in your home being cheaper to run, healthier, more comfortable to live in, and is respectful of the climate and kinder to the planet.

Keep in mind that I talk about these design principles broadly. If you wish to apply these to your own future home design, you will need to consider things like where you live, context, climate, access, budget, personal needs, etc.

Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:36 - Principle 1 - Passive Design
01:39 - Principle 2 - Energy Efficient
02:10 - Principle 3 - Systems and Technology
03:13 - Principle 4 - Footprint
04:02 - Principle 5 - Materials
04:46 - Conclusion

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[mrvk]

I want to add to that Passive Design point. It's not just more sustainable and its' not just to lower your heating/cooling bills. It's also healthier. You have fresh, filtered air circulating continuously through your home. It helps if you have allergies, it helps you to sleep better and function better when you are awake. If you ever visit a Passive House, notice how fresh the air is inside!

[keithronson]

Brilliant! Excellent content and step by step towards sustainability. The homes featured are testament to all you say. Here in the UK we are plagued by shoddy, poor quality developer [therefore profit above all else] building with little or no vision to the future. Hopefully this will change soon. The concept of 'less is more' and not having homes that are simply too big for needs is a vital element to the future of living or lifestyles. Thank You. Appreciated.

[MadelynMoore-kp]

Love it.. simple and efficient communication

[MatteoManzi]

Wise words.
Unfortunately, most designers seem more interested in creating something that lives up to their egos rather than something that is sustainable, and above all meets human well-being.

[Soniapalecekfitness]

It's the first day of the new year and I've just created a new 'Saved Under Playlist' called 'home' and this is my first video in it. Very good, thanks a lot! Love your last question on why isn't every home sustainable then - my take on it is cause then we would be well and thriving inside our homes, have minimum bills to run it (most are illegal anyways as it ought to be free) ... love the great awakening! x

[draztiqmeshaz]

Important to note for the northern hemispheric viewers is that up here, SOUTH FACING is what you want for solar gains.

[imadasmone]

Love it.. simple and efficient communication

[lovethatagave]

Really great presentation - thank you.

[juliusarmiento]

hi, I'm a big fan, I'm an architect that really promotes sustainable home design for my clients, is it ok with you if I link this video to my ongoing youtube project? if not it's okay cheers! keep it up

[SergioMGotts]

Acho que ninguém precisa mais assistir tutoriais ou contratar designers gráficos...bem vindos ao futuro distópico

[bland]

I have a two bedroom two bathroom condo and the rooms are so big I could easily put my bed into my office. The only place where I think that it is too small is the kitchen which I wish they would have made it an open floor plan.

[bland]

I heard that if you get the right kind of electrical heating and cooling device you can heat your house and cool your house off of it more efficiently than using gas such that it's better to turn the gas into electricity and send that to your home.

[embilbieblimblehead]

"why isn't every home sustainable then...?"
Oh I hear you
Cheap and immediate housing trumps sustainable for so many people, it's the unfortunate reality facing increasingly more people being priced out of the market

[car]

very easy answer for the last question. Architects. Have held the act of building and building design hostage as an 'artform' where they gift us with brutalistic architecture and other useless hideous shit they convince themselves is pretty. Take the artist out of design and put the engineer / craftsman back in and the problem is solved.

[edward]

Do you know all sustainable homes they built in New orleans after Katrina? They didn't last 10 years. I worked on one last year. There was no saving the home. All those poor home owners have homes that can't be saved.

[sampotter]

Wouldn't the home be more sustainable if it were not built at all?

[fragout]

Sustainability went out the window when the suburbs began. World War II brought about the need of a housing boom and farmland became the solution. Car centric design and unfortunately, bigotry also was the driving force behind it. Here in the States, when you speak of anything related to conservation, you're looked down upon. (We) Americans LOVE our cars and city planning and urban development is driven by ignorance, zoning ordinances (both good & bad) and over-priced cookie cutter homes.

Add to that, scarcity of water and the inability to capture the rain water for grey use.

As long as there are corporate builders, government, at all levels pushing away from sustainability, but uses it as a marketing gimmick, there will never be an affordable, sustainable small home again.

[MatthewBayard]

Nothing sustainable about burning wood for home heating. Your neighbours will get sick from the smoke too.