Kanata Healthy Housing Project

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Kanata Healthy Housing Project
Growing a Sustainable Community from our Roots
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Kahnawake Mohawk Territory
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Kahnawake Mohawk Territory
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Kanata Healthy Housing Project
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Kanata Healthy Housing Project

• Project Goals
• Sustainable
• Affordable
• Environmentally Sound
• Low Maintenance
• Culturally Relevant
• Educational
• Adaptable to Different Needs

• Reproducible
• Makes Efficient Use of Land
• Uses Healthy Building Materials Energy Sources
• Uses Indigenous Edible Landscaping
• Creates Jobs
• Builds Community Spirit

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Traditional Iroquois Dwellings
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Kanata Demonstration House
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Kanata Healthy Housing Project

• Slab on grade

• Radiant in-slab floor heating

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Kanata Healthy Housing Project

• Conventional balloon framing

• Strawbale insulation
• Sweat equity labour

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Kanata Healthy Housing Project

• Stucco finish

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Kanata Healthy Housing Project

• Earth blocks made on-site

• Interior wall thermal mass

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Kanata Healthy Housing Project

• Strawboard cabinetry
• Natural features

• Energy efficient appliances fixtures
• Healthy finishes

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Kanata Healthy Housing Project
High-efficiency masonry wood stove
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Kanata Healthy Housing Project

• Waterloo Biofilter wastewater treatment

• Advanced secondary treatment

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Kanata Healthy Housing Project

• Passive solar design
• Solar hot water

South Face Kanata Demonstration House
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Kanata Healthy Housing Project
The Neighbourhood
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Kanata Master Development Plan
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Kanata Healthy Housing Project
Kanata Neighbourhood Land Use Model
1/8 acre reserved for future family dwelling
1/8 acre for current dwelling
¼ acre lots
Common areas
For gardens, orchards, recreation, livestock,
sheds, etc.
Solution to problems with polluting wastewater
treatment systems Common areas for traditional
activities Extended family-living Efficient
use of space
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Ecological Wastewater Treatment

• Eco-Machine

Concept for Kanata Healthy Neighbourhood

• Constructed Wetland

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Kanata Healthy Housing Project

• Ongoing Challenges
• Lack of funding for sustainable infrastructure
  planning and development.
• Lack of readily-available sustainable building
  materials and systems
• Small but growing local pool of trained labour
  willing to commit to sustainable building design
  and construction

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"We cannot solve the problems we have created
with the same thinking that created them."
Albert Einstein
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Kanata Healthy Housing Project
NIAWEN! THANK YOU! GRACIAS!
Growing a Sustainable Community from our Roots
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Kanata Healthy Housing Project
""""""""""""""""""" Lynn
Konwaia'tanónwes Jacobs - BSc, MA Environmental
Advisor Kahnawake Environment Protection
Office P.O. Box 1089, Kahnawake Mohawk
Territory Quebec, J0L 1B0, CANADA Tel (450)
635-3035 Fax [phone] Email
Lynn.Jacobs_at_MCK.ca """""""""""""""
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