Designed with nature’s eternal elements

Air: Passive Ventilation System
‍Sunlight: Solar mapping
‍Water: Naturally, conditioned Water
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Passive Ventilation System

Passive ventilation system continuously freshens the indoors while maintaining comfortable temperature across all seasons. Main design elements are Earth Air Tunnel (EAT), Air Intake Tower (source controller) and Smart Hybrid Turbo-vent.

Spiral EAT is built with humes pipes at varying depth of 3-5 meters. Air acquire near constant earth core temperature keeping abode cool and warm across all seasons.

Air suction points of Air Intake Tower are fitted with vetiver matts and the water fogger for dust free air entry. Smart-hybrid turbo vents sucks the air out and maintains fresh air circulation. Air intake tower covered with curtain creepers for cooling and neem tree air purification.

Indoor Air Quality

With Indoor Air Quality as a core focus, interior is built with low VOC and natural materials like clay, gypsum, lime plaster, lime paint, linseed oil. To regulate air humidity interior walls are plastered with mud clay and air shafts with lime plaster.
With Indoor air purifying plants Indoor Air Quality is further improved and helps to create bucolic ambience.

Thermally Insulated Structure

Villa external walls built with thermally insulated AAC blocks with cavity design, filled with rice husk for higher insulation. Window cavities with Double walled units designed with solar mapping maximizing day light with optimal heat transfer.

Sunlight: Solar mapping
‍For higher sense of wellbeing and reducing heat transfer via window cavities optimal wall window ratio and window shading is achieved in accordance with sun’s seasonal path. Also eliciting maximizing day light  

Water: Naturally conditioned Water
Cool and warm the water like a well. During extreme winter conditions Solar water heater regulate the temperature. Rainwater harvesting for recharging water bed and drip irrigation for efficient water management.

Health and intangible attributes of Noor Kutir:

Health and Food:
Seasonal foods are basic requirement for sound health. Organic vegetables are grown on terrace garden. Nutrient food prepared on slow heat with indigenously designed smokeless fuel efficient chullah.

Healing Thru Self Awareness
With Nature’s presence indoors and innate intelligence of our body evolution; our mind mesmerizes the body cells to self-heal thru self-awareness.To experience “sense of presence” with nature and feeling of “being there” to invoke self-awareness thru Virtual reality technology to create ambience for self -awareness.