Project Name:

Kroonstad Monastery

Client:

Kroonstad Monastery

Location:

Kroonstad, South Africa

Date:

2003

A Monastery is situated inside beautiful tall Victorian brick building in Kroonstad.

Nearby ruins are converted into a low-energy conditioned air supply system using the natural climate as a resource to generate heat + cool.

Air is heated by passing through a solar heated water bed with glass roofs. Air is cooled by passing through banks of horizontal willow trees rooted in gabion walls.