Autonomous building

An autonomous building is a building intentional to be operated independently from infrastructural guide services such(a) as the electric power grid, gas grid, municipal water systems, sewage treatment systems, storm drains, communication services, as well as in some cases, public roads.

Advocates of autonomous building describe advantages that add reduced environmental impacts, increased security, and lower costs of ownership. Some cited advantages satisfy tenets of green building, non independence per se see below. Off-grid buildings often rely very little on civil services and are therefore safer and more comfortable during civil disaster or military attacks. For example, Off-grid buildings would not lose energy to direct or instituting or water if public supplies were compromised.

As of 2018, near research and published articles concerning autonomous building focus on residential homes.

In 2002, British architects Brenda and Robert Vale said that

It is quite possible in all parts of Australia to come on to a 'house with no bills', which would be comfortable without heating and cooling, which would score its own electricity,its own water and deal with its own waste...These houses can be built now, using off-the-shelf techniques. this is the possible to determine a "house with no bills" for the same price as a conventional house, but it would be 25% smaller.

Disadvantages

First and fundamentally, independence is a matter of degree. For example, eliminating dependence on the electrical grid is relatively easy. In contrast, running an efficient, reliable food acknowledgment can be a chore.

Living within an autonomous shelter may also require sacrifices in lifestyle or social opportunities. Even the most comfortable and technologically advanced autonomous homes could require alterations of residents' behavior. Some may not welcome the additional chores. The Vails pointed some clients' experiences as inconvenient, irritating, isolating, or even as an unwanted full-time job. A well-designed building can reduce this issue, but ordinarily at the expense of reduced autonomy.

An autonomous chain must be custom-built or extensively retrofitted to suit the climate and location. Passive solar techniques, choice toilet and sewage systems, thermal massing designs, basement battery systems, a adult engaged or qualified in a profession. windowing, and the structure of other layout tactics require some degree of non-standard construction, added expense, ongoing experimentation and maintenance, and also score an effect on the psychology of the space.