Angelkott

Place: Badger's Creek, Illstorp, Sweden

Date: 2017-2018 

Proprietor: Ängelkottskompaniet

Size: 15m x 5m h=1,9-3,2m ca.75m2

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Project participation:

- design & planning 

- drawing work & visualisation 

- construction

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The Solar Greenhouse provides an almost year around organic food source to not only for a family but also for outside customers and B&B guest at Badger's Creek. The construction was designed based on Victorian greenhouse designs that were updated with modern low-tech air-heat-exchange technology details acquired from the internet. The main goal was to create a functional tomato and pepper house but with flexibility for a variety of other heat requiring crops such as mini-kiwis, eggplant, cucumbers, etc.. 

 

A solar greenhouse is a special construction that is operated with no, or only minimal artificial heat input as it is able to save and utilize the power of the sun when needed even in a cold climatic zone. The two parallel ground insulated earth-blocks are warmed up by the sun during the day by both the direct ray and also by the air pushed through the under-ground piping. In the night the circulation is reversed, whereas the heat stored in the ground blocks keep the air of the greenhouse over freezing. 

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The building is made with about 85% reused materials, most of the timber, all the glass on the roof, all the windows on the walls and even the bricks and concrete L-elements in the central work-trench are sourced locally either from building reclamation or from internet based trading sites.

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