The Mariposa House Hospice in Orillia is a 10-bed (5 current and 5 planned) residential hospice set in a forested site, designed to provide dignity and comfort for residents and families. In 2022, a team of volunteers implemented a permaculture landscape design completed by Coolearth that now frames the hospice with a living, regenerative garden. …
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High Performance and Passive house design is based on both rigorous Building Science principles, but also inherited tradition. In this blog post we propose an alterative wall assembly based on first principles: high performance, low-cost, low embodied carbon, durable, efficient use of materials, and flexible.
This blog post grew from a discussion we were having in the office a few weeks ago about the size of the frames in wood-aluminum “passive house” windows compared to fibreglass windows.
Based on our analysis the smaller frames of the fibreglass windows when compared to the thick frames of the wood-aluminum windows allow for additional wall insulation which improves the effective performance of the window beyond the stated R-value.
Coolearth Architecture is excited to host another mural for this year’s Window Wonderland in the Junction celebration in our window-gallery at 386 Pacific Avenue.
We are excited to announce that in October, Geoff Christou passed the Passive House Institutes exam to become a Certified Passive House Designer. This achievement means that, in addition to Krupa Patel, Coolearth now has two Certified Passive House Designers on staff.
We’re excited to share the latest developments on our rammed earth building project in Prince Edward County, Ontario from our site visit in July and some subsequent photos from later in the summer.
