EagleYew House - Efficient Technology With an Artist's Aesthetic
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Artist Ezio Cusi’s house is a work of art -and also built smart. The timber-framed house with light clay walls is made with mostly local natural materials. For the cold winters, it has an annualized geo-solar system (AGS) which in summer transfers hot water from solar panels to storage in the ground. In the cool months the heat flows back into the house, warming especially the periphery. It’s comfortable even in the top story. A hand-sculpted dragon provides whimsy as well as warming in the masonry rocket stove - which burns far more efficiently than a wood stove as well as offering a nice warm bench to sit on! Art is embedded in walls while many windows are graced with original stained glass. Enjoy the blend of beauty and functionality. Episode 317. [earthenbuilt.com/gallery/eagleyew-home; ecusi.wordpress.com]
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This reminds me of a timber frame house that married and adobe house. I adore both. Very well done. I was in my 20's in the 1970s. We saw envelope houses and wonderful innovative structures in New Hampshire. The heat sink mass principle was widely used. Your home is truly an artist's delight and something to enjoy for many many years. We just built a more conventional home in 2016, designed to go off-grid if necessary. Our woods are extensive, so we burn wood, with propane/electric as a back up. The 70's got a lot of people thinking and implementing their creative juices down the road...
Please invite me over for cup of coffee and to look around ur beautiful house ... I get so excited whenever I see a cob house 😍😍
Coming into this type of living late but this guy's innovation is going to play a critical role in my future design. Thank you so much for asking all the right questions. I AM STOKED!!
This builder is BRILLIANT !
VERY GOOD INSIGHT !
AWESOME IDEAS AND USES OF SIMPLE WORKABLE THEORY!
Wulfy
I love that house. I have a small house and its size makes it efficient. But it has nothing on this guy. I'm also thrilled to see the use of cob. Some of your early videos on cob are what got me interested in your channel. I still have dreams of a cob house of my own some day. Couple that with earthships from a similar channel, and you're getting close to my dream home.
HOLY MOTHER THAT MASON OVEN!
Gosh, what a beauty. That will make the angels sing, Mr. Cusi! Such an elegantly designed kacheloven. Well done!
I really love the house. What a beautiful building.
Fascinating heating system.
I am researching about adobe and cob houses for some time now, but this house is really amazing. I would be really interested how the heating system is working after some years. I also would be interested in the plans of the house and detailed descriptions of how the walls were made. Any chance of getting them? Thank you and greetings from Austria!
Just absolutely stunning!!
I'd love to have floor plans for each of these heating systems? I love the style of decorating this home. I'd be delighted at every turn every day. This gentleman must be a totally fascinating person!👍🤗👏👏👏
What exactly are you looking for? The Masonry oven does not have a plan, it was done by an German builder and he did not use plans. It evolved as we were building it.
For the AGS, i have to go to my original plans and see if I have them. They also evolved organically. Thanks for your comments...
Much LOVE ~
dreamhouse!!!
This is a beautiful home! Thank you for sharing. I was wondering if you would be willing to share floor plans and some details. I'm designing my own straw bale home and your design really resonated with me. I would love to see the layout of the rooms and how the staircase works. Thank you!
Very awesome!
After 4 years how has the heating system underground evolved? Is it heating more like you expected?
Mass in a house is a great way to store and slowly release heat. My one concern with the smoke going through all that winding pipe is that as it loses heat it would deposit more and more creosote on the pipe walls. Creosote is very flammable and can cause chimney fires if too much builds up. In a normal wood stove having a very hot fire once in awhile prevents this. Although I'm thinking in this case with so much non-combustible mass surrounding the pipe even if it did catch fire it would burn off without doing damage. Any other thoughts on this ?
I like the heating system of his earth battery that he has.
he charges (heats) the earth battery (areaXdepth) and during the cool months, this battery releases its energy in the form of warming the house.
If you used more than 6 or 7 pipes in the AGS heating circuit, would the earth heat faster? Why does it take 7 years?
Also, how much did construction cost?
OK you have this huge thermal mass under the house and it has heat. How does that heat get from there (in the dirt) to the house interior? Still a very nice and interesting house, thanks for sharing.
The heat is transferred through pipes embedded in the floor (radiant heating).
I would be interested in how well the technology used in this house would work in colder climates.
I live in Vacouver Island, a relatively cold climate. The more pertinent question is how much water passes underneath the house, which is the heat battery...
They are in Canada
Great job on the blocking. The lighting is superb. Is their living room in an auditorium? Those acoustics....stunning. /sarcasm
@Kachelofen: what material you took for the COB? he said something that sound like "horse minor?" he said, a not burning material with air in it for isolation... i cant find horse minor - what did he used? ... thx for the upload and the great inspiration for that termal mass battery under the house (great idea)
He said, "...Special type of cob which uses horse manure. With the manure, it doesn’t burn. The air inside gives it insulation and absorbs the heat."
thx, make sense, horse prepared fiber for the cob ;)
Beautiful house. For all the money he spent on this ridiculous geothermal system, he could have simply invested in a controls based system using the solar heat circulating the water through the panel (copper tubes) and back to a highly insulated reserve tank. If that's not enough, the controls system would leverage any available heat through heat exchange from the fireplace system ( in the main house), which holds all that heat in for 30 hours after a fire due to clay construction...Fraction of the cost of geothermal. But hey, it's not as sexy to discuss.
Thanks for your comments. You might be right with regards to total cost of other solutions. Yet, your solution, as I understand it, would not heat the house in winter, or at least it won't do it when it's raining or cloudy. The AGS system is designed to heat in winter with summer sun.
We considered the option of using the masonry oven to heat water, but this means using more wood to heat the oven. The AGS is less waist of resources (and lesss poluting).
Of course, it does have many issues that have to be dealt with. This is an ongoing experiment...
20:45 im afraid that... you are wrong at this point my friend! Smoke suppose to go out, it's Smoke that goes out. If less Smoke goes out, then the rest of Smoke stays somewhere, and it stays in the inner sourrounding of your chimney! Therefore in time, there is carbon build in the inner surface, which acts as heat isolation, SO in time, this specific heat system Will loose efficiency
Auch! Lovely house, but Janaia, I do wish you'd adjust the intro text to match the clear learning curve you're repeating in the film: This is not a "cob house", as cob is a dense material made from clay/sand/straw with a very low insulation value. This appears to be a post&beam construction with light-clay infill (a material with a much better insulation value than cob).
In the film you briefly refer to the earthen plaster as "cob"; it's a common mistake, but lets focus on being a good educational example; earthen plaster is typically only 1" thick and of a plaster consistency...cob is an old English word for "a rounded lumb or mass" of mud and straw...much more compact...
Thanks, Max! You're absolutely right. (I checked with Ezio to make sure). It is indeed timber frame with light clay walls. I've revised the description. Thanks for educating us all.
peakmoment I love your interviews!!
peakmoment Thank you kindly; I'd be happy to delete the comment, but fact is that it's a very common problem we keep having to clarify over at "Talking Natural Homes" FB group, so I think the common is better left up for educational purposes...(?).
...And thank you so much for all your wonderful features throughout the years. Merry X-mas!
I just wish you showed some technical pictures or something because the guy has a hard time explaining what is what