Project Living Steel: Torovo house

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House-experiment
Work on the draft Australian architects began in March 2009. But construction was halted by the crisis. Renewed it in July 2011.
The house is built with the use of light steel construction, coated steel. Metal set of Cherepovets steel mill (Severstal)The project house has several original energy-saving technologies. For example, the heat exchanger is under the ground, above — special Thermopanel, which allows evenly throughout your home to distribute the heat. Applied geothermal heating system.
It is expected that the house should give a serious economic impact during its operation. The building will be Packed with sensors that will provide monitoring of parameters of microclimate and energy consumption. The final task is to figure out how it is more economical houses of traditional construction materials.
Watch Presentation of the project

Interview with the chief architect of the project: http://www.livingsteel.org/interview/interview-with-peter-stutchbury
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