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A Trumansburg housing development that HOLT Architects designed for Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS) earned a ...
From the Architect: "This project for a family is an extension to a double-fronted Victorian weatherboard home, designed with ...
California's first certified passive solar house has hit the market for $6 million. The Brentwood residence was designed in ...
Building a passive solar adobe home wasn't the norm in 1982. But studio artist and Zen practitioner Susan Linnell, driven by a desire for efficiency and an interest in architecture, knew what she ...
In all, The Alloy Block plans to restore two 19th-century brick buildings and bring more than 1,000 new housing units, affordable and market-rate, to the busy transit hub. "Passive house is a ...
Douglas Romines springs for triple-pane windows, wood fiber insulation, and solar power ... Solar House by Henry Wright Jr.—one of the earliest examples of passive solar design.
Leading the pack, passive house designs have existed for decades and ... about their experience with energy modeling and how they plan to ensure airtightness throughout the construction process ...
Paul and Patricia Grogan, both 81, built an energy-efficient passive solar home near Dublin in ... Their architect helped them design the house, which is a four-bedroom, two-bathroom, greenhouse ...
Among the designs were plans for the “Sun Trap House”. This design applied passive solar design principles to a modest freestanding home. In a time of shortage, most people were happy to have ...
What if I told you that it’s possible to build a house ... solar panels you could heat, cool, and even charge an EV for just a few hundred dollars a year? Let’s take a closer look and explore ...
Passive House ... areas in their designs. If the house loses too much heat in the winter, architects can redesign thermal bridges to reduce heat transfer or increase the number of south-facing windows ...