Should we ban heating altogether? Half of the world’s total energy is used to heat buildings. Now, an amazing new design movement is making houses warmed by the bodies inside them.
The house where the central heating is YOU
MM House by Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab in Mallorca, Spain © OHLAB Glossary
Pyrenean - The Pyrenees are a range of mountains dividing Spain from France.
Stone Age - A prehistoric age in which stones were used as tools. It ended around 4,000BC, when metal began to be used instead.
Passive House - The original German name is very similar: Passivhaus.
A German and a Swedish academic - Wolfgang Feist and Bo Adamson first came up with the idea in 1988.
Weak spots - These are referred to as “thermal bridging”.