Presentation explaining how to make a basic 3D model of a house to add sustainable designs for a house that can cope with a cold climate

1. Making a sustainable house
Coping with a colder climate
Year 7 Hums+
Dangerous World
Abbeyfield School – Humanities
http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com

2. Features of a sustainable home for
a cold climate
• Thick insulation
• Solar panels for electricity and heating
• Rain water capture for flushing toilets
• Large windows for natural light
• Wind turbine as renewable energy source

3. The walls, roof and floors
• Mark out 8 squares – all
the same size
• 18cm x 18cm works well
• Carefully cut them out
18cm
18cm

4. Supporting the first floor
• Mark and cut out two
strips of card (15cm long
and 5cm wide)
• Fold them in half
lengthways
• Place them on two of the
pieces of card you cut out
for the walls (make sure
they are half way up the
wall – 9cm)
5cm
15cm
9cm

5. Supporting the first floor
• Using masking tape,
stick them down

6. Attaching the walls
• Stick one piece of
blank card to one of
the walls you added
the support to
• Repeat this on the
other side to make
the back and side
walls

7. Attaching the floors
• Turn your box over and
attach another piece of
card to make the floor
• Turn your box back over
• Slide in another piece of
card onto your supports
to make the first floor

8. Ceiling and roof
• Now add the first floor
ceiling by sticking
another piece of card
to the top of the box
• Take your last two
piece of card and
stick them together
using the masking
tape

9. Your completed basic house
• Stick on the roof
using two piece of
masking tape
• Congratulations!
You now have your
basic house

10. Showing your sustainable house ideas
• Glue your house onto the middle of a piece of card
• Now add your ideas to the model to make it into a house that can cope with
a cold climate
How could you show insulation, solar panels, wind turbine etc?
Have a go at making additions for your house
• Describe and explain your ideas on the card you have stuck the house on
Your house
Card base