The EKO Range of Houses

Owning a sustainable home has never been more affordable. Our EKO range of eco houses have been specifically designed to be flexible, sustainable and within the price reach of ordinary New Zealanders. While the major components of an EKO home are prefabricated and delivered to your site in a container, The EKO range of homes are a system for building a sustainable home that minimizes the waste associated with traditional house building while also keeping the cost at a sensible and affordable level.
With a range of designs to choose from, you will easily find the right home to suit your site, needs and budget, and you can rest assured that all EKO range designs are based on passive solar principles, are thermally and water efficient and incorporate safe, healthy building materials. The designs are extremely flexible, including innovative modular options that allow you to start off small and grow your home at a later date as your needs change.

 

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N1 Kitchen System Is Designed For Outdoors, But Would Look Good Anywhere


Kyle Thacker’s design has some clever ideas for a folding portable kitchen. He should bring it inside.

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School Desk Designed To Protect Students From Earthquakes and Other Disasters


Israeli industrial design students come up with desk that does double duty

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Corniche Pedestals are a Minimalist Shelving System


We have said that shelves aren’t just for book anymore, but these might barely hold your e-books.

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Stunning VietnameseTownhouse Is Only Ten Feet Wide


The terracotta tile walls give it a warmth and character, and it seems much larger than it is.

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Wiel Arets and Alessi Designs Corian Kitchen For Valcucine


Some of the biggest names in European design collaborate on new freestanding kitchen design

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Smart Toilet & Sink Combo Uses Greywater to Flush


Flushing with drinking water is wasteful; water from washing your hands is used to flush the toilet in this water-saving toilet design.

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21 Bookshelf Designs That Roll, Stretch, Climb Or Just Hold Stuff, Maybe Even Books


TreeHugger has been covering them for years; here are some of the best.

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Ruined Rec Center Gym Floor Gets Upcycled into Furniture with a Story


Wool Hat Furniture in Colorado has salvaged the old flooring of a local rec center gym and made it into new furniture.

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A Wood Panel System for Passivhaus

The main driver for the performance and affordability of the recently-mentioned Rainbow Duplex is a panelized prefab system of construction that was designed to help projects meet the Passive House standard.  BC Passive House in Canada has a manufacturing plant that’s making these panels, and I thought it would be interesting to share what’s inside the company’s next-gen, high-performance panels.

As for the wall section (R52), from the exterior to the interior, the prefab panel has:

Siding with rainscreen;
Diffusion board (open to outside);
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Architect Andrew Maynard Builds a Hill. And a House.


I honestly don’t know how he gets away with some of the things that he does.

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