Sentences with phrase «winter shelter designed»
One of the highlights of the 2010 Giving Shelter exhibition was this winter shelter designed by The Switzer Group.
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Architects design and build creative outdoor winter shelters for the city's strays, which are displayed at the event and then donated to caregivers with NYC Feral Cat Initiative to be put to use.
In a project called «Architects for Animals,» founded four years ago by Leslie Farrell, and presented by the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, some of the city's most renowned architectural firms and designers design and build delightfully original winter shelters for New York City's outdoor «community» cats to provide them with a refuge from the cold.
Feral cat caretakers are an inventive lot and there are many other designs for winter shelters that make use of Styrofoam and / or Rubbermaid storage bins.
The house features: Earth sheltering on three sides with a carefully designed PAHS style insulation umbrella that uses the surrounding earth for thermal storage.Passive solar gain through the south triple glazed windows.Active solar through several Trombe walls integrated into the south wall.An extensive earth tube system that pre-heats incoming fresh air and recovers heat from outgoing stale air.A carefully designed back up wood heating system.Solar water heatingProvisions for solar electricity.The house is located at 45 degrees north latitude and has a serious winter — the total heating bill for the past two winters has been $ 70 worth of wood — about 0.6 cords.