How to Make a Sustainable House in Tinkercad

Hi, my name is Jack and I made this sustainable house for my science class. The point of this project was to learn about sustainability in a home and ways to make a house more sustainable. I built this house in Tinkercad. This home was designed to be sustainable in the savanna. The savanna has a hot and pretty dry climate. The specific savanna this house was designed for was the savanna located near New South Wales. The coordinates are about 32* S and about 146* E. The average temperature there is 78*F and the average rainfall is 20-40 in., and it is mostly sunny there all the time. It is important to have a sustainable house because it helps the earth and saves you money. Climate change is a something that is going to really affect not only us but wildlife very soon and just by making your house sustainable you can help slow that down by a little bit which is always better than nothing.

Computer, Tinkercad, and Basic Shapes in Tinkercad.

I designed my home based on houses like this one because the usually, the less complex something is the less expensive it is. That means that you can spend more money on, more powerful solar panels, or better cooling and heating. Houses that are square most likely allow for more windows than house with lots of corners and curves which would need custom windows which are much more expensive. Houses with a more open layout tend to feel bigger than houses with a weird shape which make the layout of the house much different making it feel smaller.

To build the main frame you will need cubes and 3d triangles. The walls are made up of cubes that were flattened but still pretty thick, made taller, and made wider. The roof of the house was made with two cubes that had the dimensions changed just like the cube and are just angled to look like a roof. The pieces in between the roof and the house are 3d triangles fit to shape to the roofs angle.

To make the holes for the windows first you need to figure out the size you want for the windows. Once you have figured out the size then you want to get a cube and change it from solid to hole, place the cube where you want the window to be. Lastly start from where there is nothing, press and drag and a box should appear. Keep drag until the box is around the cube for the window, press group and the hole will appear in the wall.

To make the windows firstly you want to make a cube that is the same size as the window. Next you want to change the color to preferably white but choose which ever one you want. Then you want to make the cube as thin as possible and change the transparency level until you can see through the window but still see the window pane. Lastly you want to place the pane in the window hole closed to the back but still have a lip. Do the same thing only place the second panel as close to the front but still having a lip.

Lastly to finish off the build you need to add the rest of the sustainable aspects. You need to add solar panels, batteries, water collection system, grey water reservoir, well, and geothermal heating. In order for the house to be sustainable it needs to have sustainable aspects. I will talk more about each sustainable aspect in the next section.

The first sustainable aspect is that wasn't explained yet was the solar panels. I found the solar panels in the all shapes tab. The batteries I made with a cube, two cylinders, and a ring. The well was made with cylinders. The water collection system was made with the 3d half circle, tubes, and a cylinder. The grey water reservoir is next too the water collection tank and is made with a cylinder. The geothermal heating system was made with tubes.