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Published in 5/2019 - Ecology

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On a Path Toward Ecological Living

Iris Andersson

Photo Jenni Reuter Architects

A spinning flue cowl flickers in the sunlight on a tall, cubic, yellow house. At the end of Uuraantie road, in a residential area in Espoo, something out of the ordinary has been built. The building is one of the first single-family houses with natural stack ventilation in the Helsinki metropolitan area that was built after the new Finnish energy regulations came into effect.

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