1/ Orientation — A Pavilion Off-Grid Home is sited to take advantage of climatic features such as sun and cooling breezes.

2/ Shading — Pavilion Off-Grid Homes are built to shade your house to reduce summer temperatures, improve comfort and save energy. (Did you know that direct sun can generate the same heat as a single bar radiator over each square metre of a surface!)

3/ Passive Cooling — A Pavilion Off-Grid Home builds in passive cooling to cool both the house and the people in it, carefully integrating design elements such as breezeways which combined with clerestory windows create thermal updrafts to draw out heat, as well as specifying high “R” values in our selection of building materials.

4/ Sealing — Air leakage accounts for 15 to 25% of winter heat loss in buildings and can contribute to significant loss of ‘cool’ in when the air conditioner is on. Pavilion Off-Grid Homes are designed to minimise air leakage.

5/ Passive Heating — Passive solar heating is the least expensive way to heat your home. A Pavilion Off-Grid Home is designed to keep out summer sun but lets in warm winter sun, whilst ensuring that the building itself keeps things cosy inside in winter but allows heat to escape in summer.

6/ Insulation — Pavilion Off-Grid Home is built to perform as the manufacturer intended by making sure all insulation is correctly installed.

7/ Glazing — Windows and doors bring in light and fresh air and offer views connecting inside living spaces with the outdoors. However, they can be a major source of unwanted heat gain in summer and heat loss in winter.

Pavilion Off-Grid Homes design all glazing elements to protect you and your family from the extremes of heat and cold while reducing your power consumption.