Hi there
Planning this for a 1 acre block in Gippsland Victoria, which is a mild temperate climate. This is designed to face about 15 east of true north, and is hopefully a passive solar design.
As I try and solve each problem, I seem to finish up with a larger and larger house. I want to build a 14.4* 7.5 colorbond steel shed with wall height of 3.2-3.6 metres about 10 metres behind the house in the NW corner of the block rather than alongside the house as I thought it would be a bit large and look poor, but then I also need something for the cars alongside the house.
One of the problems we have is very strong wind from SW and E and ENE so a large shed on the West side would have made a good windbreak. Another problem I have is we have two dogs and in our existing house we have a north facing 5 by 5 metre courtyard which houses their kennels, beds, and outside table chairs, I don't know how to get a sheltered area for the dogs with our new design.
The existing mini courtyard is too small to be much use, might be ok for a couple of chairs in the sun. I was thinking of a sunroom on the north side, but thought it might be too hot for the dogs and I did not know if it would block sun from the thermal mass concrete slab and be a large cost and not that beneficial.
Any other suggestions for improvements on our design would be appreciated.
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