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Panda houses in
Harderwijk
The project consists of 31 houses, constructed as one row of single-family terraced houses and two rows of houses for the elderly (so-called senior houses).
The senior houses have the living room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom on the ground floor and a spare room on the first floor. The energy use of the houses had to be 60% below the 'reference' energy use at that time, which is now 40% below the government standard. To achieve this low energy consumption, the houses have a very high insulation level and very low U-value windows. The houses also have a heat recovery system. To reduce energy loss the (hot) water supply lines and the heating lines are kept as short as possible.
Despite the urban situation, which is east/west oriented, the houses make good use of passive solar energy.
photos by Piet Rook