The Thermal Machine
Team: Autumn Breeze Mullin, Gianell Gonzalez
Brief: Utilize Passive House design strategies to design a dwelling in Phoenix, Arizona for clients who have different thermal comforts.
Concept: With opposing interests and thermal comforts, sisters Sonja and Santa Cruz required a dwelling that could function as a home as well as a place they could make their livelihoods as a psychologist and writer respectively.

Exterior evening

Interior high noon

Exterior high noon

1:20 Model

1:20 Model

1:20 Model

1:20 Model

1:8 Model

1:20 Site Plan

Elevations

Plans

1:4 detail

Section

Section

Summer Wind Diagram

Winter Wind Diagram

Summer & Winter Heat Gains

Wind flow Diagram

Heat Release 12 am

Heat Gains 12 pm

Inhabitable floors Diagram

Building Shell Diagram

Shading Diagram

Shading Strategy diagram

Plan Diagram