Super Efficient Energy Study Guide eBook - How to Build & Operate a Super-Efficient House

The primary purpose of your home’s layout is to provide pleasant living. A good layout allows convenient travel between rooms, provides easy accesses to outside areas, exploits views, isolates noise, keeps you comfortable under all conditions, and does all this with elegance. For example, you will orient the living room windows toward the waterfront or the mountains, put bedrooms on the quiet side of the house, and so forth.

At the same time, use the layout to minimize your energy requireme...