View of the south-east side. Overall outer footprint is 35’ x 21’. It’s pretty tiny. That’s almost exactly the width of the old trailer site and corn crib, but not as deep. We can increase the dimensions by a few feet if needed as we make the floorplan.View of the north-east side. The vertical section coming out of the top of the greenhouse is for top vents. There is a similar vertical section for top vents in the sunspace.Nearly all of the south (left) side will be glazing for the sunspace. The thinner walls are glazing, the thicker walls are insulated. The center wall will have windows and doors to let lots of light into the house. The sunspace is seperate from the greenhouse. It’s a low-thermal-mass sunspace that can get very hot during the day and near ambient at night. It’s also dry, so no humidity/mold problems with opening it to the house. It will work a lot like the hot air collector on the south side of the farm house. A solar PV powered fan (or radiator + water pump t.b.d.) will move the heat from the sunspace to storage under the house. The upper part will have a small balcony and “Amish” pully clothsline for drying cloths. Except for a porch swing, the lower part will be kept empty for an excercise space. Because the temperatures can be extremely hot and cold maybe only a few hardy potted plants, or maybe only plants inside the house windows to the sunspace. My guess is that the sunspace with be hot from 11am to 4pm one or two days per week in Dec-Feb and about half the days of the rest of the heating season.The greenhouse is attached to the side of the house, but no doors or windows between the greenhouse and house. Entry to the greenhouse is from the outside. This is to decrease risk of mold from the hot, humid environment. It will feature a hottub filled by rainwater, heated by the sun, and used to water the plants when ‘dirty’. Also plant areas to clean the water for the rest of the house. The greenhouse will have it’s own solar PV powered fan to move heat to storage underneath it. We can easily extend the season of warm-loving crops and grow some kale through the winter. If we want to keep tropical plants through the winter we’ll have to mess with covers at night and really dial it in.
The “Entry” on the right side is the entry to the house. It will have all of the shoe, coat, and other storage nooks that we have discussed.
View of east side of the greenhouse and house. The house can be constructed in 4 sections since they all need to be insulated from each other. We can start with leveling the whole area and building the main house. Then add on sections one at a time.
