Individuals with a high degree of concern for environmental issues who also desire a comfortable, high-quality living environment, typify our residential clients. The houses we design for them nicely reconcile the head-on conflict between their environmental commitment and the desire for a comfortable lifestyle. Our clients live lightly on the earth, without having to take of vow of deprivation to do it.
We at Solar Design Associates are engineers as well as architects. We design the buildings and engineer their energy support systems, together, as an integrated effort. This integrated approach is essential to creating a high-performance building, especially if it's to be energy-independent. On selected commissions, we also offer design/build services, providing the client a single-source of responsibility for the entire project.
Heat, sunshine, and lack of water are part of living in the desert. Many environmentally sensitive features were therefore designed into the house:
-- A roof area of 8,000 sq. ft., well over twice the 3,300 sq. ft. floor area, provides overhangs that keep the scorching summer sun out, while letting the warmth of the lower-angled winter sun in.
-- North/south walls that focus spaces on the magnificent views also banish the intensely hot and bright western sun.
-- Double-glazed, low 'E' windows impede heat flow into and out of the house.
-- Exterior spaces are evaporatively cooled and shaded, creating pleasant tempered microclimates.
-- Massive walls and floors act as heat sinks.
-- Skylights which invite warming sunlight in winter are equipped with a retractable canvas cloth to keep out the severe rays of summer.
-- The plumbing system is on a loop that can divert and recycle sink, washer, and shower water for secondary uses in periods of drought.
-- Downflow nighttime breezes carried by the wash are captured by upstream windows in the bridge and disseminated to the rest of the house....................
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1992 Glenn Christiansen (Photographer)
Line and Space, Architectsss
Finally, we wanted to extend the interior spaces visually to the outside:
-- Very large windows on the north and south exposures take advantage of magnificent views while dematerializing the boundaries of the house.
-- The planes of the Douglas fir ceilings and poured concrete floors stretch past the borders of the windows and to the decks and ceilings of exterior spaces, visually extending the boundaries.
-- The house takes advantage of dense vegetation to provide privacy from public view while allowing us to experience the desert.
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Line and Space, Architectsss
Arroyo House
The desert is one of the most beautiful, fragile, and punishing ecosystems on earth. Living here means understanding the environment and respecting its limitations. One cannot significantly change these surroundings without destroying them. For these reasons, we decided the best way to build here would be to fit into and respect the existing context. The reward is living as a part of the desert, witness to its miraculous life and overwhelming beauty.
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1992 Bob Freund (Photographer)
Line and Space, Architects
Green Design
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The goal was to construct a 1,730 sq. ft. vacation / future retirement house on a flat ocean meadow lot with moderate views. The owners requested a house that was simple, natural and spacious. An additional concern was to make the house harmonious with the landscape, thereby reaffirming the original Sea Ranch philosophy of building in partnership with the land.
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The house seeks consonance with the land, and exemplary standing in the emerging community. Two prominent rock formations rise out of the commons to the west and suggest considering the house as a metaphorical third. The composition shingle and sod-roofed wedge sweeps up out of the meadow, achieving harmony with the horizontality of the setting. Not only has the house become a part of the meadow, the meadow has become a part of the house.
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This home features active solar water and space heating, passive solar heating and cooling, solar generated electricity by photovoltaics, radiant heat distribution, a solar greenhouse, waste recycling, earth sheltering, internal thermal mass and super-insulation.
Photovoltaics are a truly elegant means of producing electricity on site, directly from the sun, allowing you to take control of your energy destiny and create your own lifestyle without concern for energy supply or environmental harm. No pollution, no by-products, no depletion of resources -- these solid-state devices simply make electricity out of sunlight.
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Although still more expensive than conventional grid power, solar electricity is the ideal source of power for an environmentally-responsive home whether it's your principal residence or a vacation retreat. With the right design, the sunlight that falls on your homesite will power your home. Your solar electric power system can also easily be configured to provide on-site solar recharging of solar / electric vehicles - now or in the future.
Individuals with a high degree of concern for environmental issues who also desire a comfortable, high-quality living environment, typify our residential clients. The houses we design for them nicely reconcile the head-on conflict between their environmental commitment and the desire for a comfortable lifestyle. Our clients live lightly on the earth, without having to take of vow of deprivation to do it.
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Energysmiths
Mark Rosenbaum, PE
P.O. Box 194
Meriden, NH 03770
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The goal was to use an integrated systems design approach to produce a home which would be highly resource efficient, affordable to both build and operate, healthful, and aesthetically appealing.
The 1,700 sq. ft. home, located in an 8500 DD (
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The functional requirements were simple: sleeping areas separated from public spaces; a place for study and work; recreational and social activities in one space; and eating and cooking areas could be related to but isolated from guest areas.
After exploring these needs, the natural bisection of the site, and our desire to arrange rooms into distinctly public and private zones, we began to consider a design concept based upon two parts that would be linked across the arroyo by a bridge.
We set goals that would make the house a part of the site, integrating it into the existing context and preserving the lush vegetation and wildlife: The plan was manipulated to carefully miss significant vegetation such as saguaros. the roof plane was punctured to respond to the light and spatial needs of plants. Cantilevered concrete decks allow the house to meet the edge of the wash. Careful formwork left rocks in their original positions, providing resistance to erosion and adding natural beauty. The long, low planes and blue fascias of the roof help the building to blend into the horizontality of the desert and the blue skies. Salvaged stone from a nearby highway project complements the walls made of grey center-scored split-faced CMU chosen to blend with the site.
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Line and Space, Architectsss
We set goals that would make the house a part of the site, integrating it into the existing context and preserving the lush vegetation and wildlife:
The plan was manipulated to carefully miss significant vegetation such as saguaros. the roof plane was punctured to respond to the light and spatial needs of plants. Cantilevered concrete decks allow the house to meet the edge of the wash. Careful formwork left rocks in their original positions, providing resistance to erosion and adding natural beauty. The long, low planes and blue fascias of the roof help the building to blend into the horizontality of the desert and the blue skies. Salvaged stone from a nearby highway project complements the walls made of grey center-scored split-faced CMU chosen to blend with the site.
-- The plan was manipulated to carefully miss significant vegetation such as saguaros.
-- The roof plane was punctured to respond to the light and spatial needs of plants.
--Cantilevered concrete decks allow the house to meet the edge of the wash. Careful formwork left rocks in their original positions, providing resistance to erosion and adding natural beauty.
--The long, low planes and blue fascias of the roof help the building to blend into the horizontality of the desert and the blue skies.
--Salvaged stone from a nearby highway project complements the walls made of grey center-scored split-faced CMU chosen to blend with the site........
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Line and Space, Architects
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In an area of environmental extremes, careful entry sequences that allow smooth transition from the street to the interior are particularly important:::
-- Visual shocks are avoided through the entry sequence which carries the visitor from the bright glare of the sun, to the shade of the covered entry, to the lower light levels of the interior spaces. This holds true at other covered areas as well.
-- Abrupt temperature changes are avoided by gradually bringing one from the intense heat of day to the shaded entry and evaporatively cooled decks and finally to the air-conditioned rooms.
-- A fountain at the entry guides one into the house and provides psychological relief from the heat.
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Line and Space, Architectsss
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The lower level spaces open to a bermed garden which provides privacy from the street while allowing upward views to the coastal range beyond. l range beyond.
The geometry of the structure allows the living/dining space to be placed well above the meadow for enhanced views, while the secondary spaces wrap around it near ground level. Circulation flows uninterrupted and is experienced as an integral part of both the upper and lower levels.
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Energysmiths
Mark Rosenbaum, PE
P.O. Box 194
Meriden, NH 03770
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Resource efficiency means looking at more than just reducing heating energy consumption. It means using regionally appropriate strategies to reduce our demand on as many resources as possible. Toward this end this home is space efficient; made of durable materials; conservative of energy for heating, domestic hot water, and electrical use; conservative of water; incorporates food production and storage and includes a convenient location for recyclables..
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Brookline, Massachusetts
Solar Design Associates
252 Old Littleton Road
Harvard, MA 01451
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Individuals with a high degree of concern for environmental issues who also desire a comfortable, high-quality living environment, typify our residential clients. The houses we design for them nicely reconcile the head-on conflict between their environmental commitment and the desire for a comfortable lifestyle. Our clients live lightly on the earth, without having to take of vow of deprivation to do it.
We at Solar Design Associates are engineers as well as architects. We design the buildings and engineer their energy support systems, together, as an integrated effort. This integrated approach is essential to creating a high-performance building, especially if it's to be energy-independent. On selected commissions, we also offer design/build services, providing the client a single-source of responsibility for the entire project.
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We at Solar Design Associates are engineers as well as architects. We design the buildings and engineer their energy support systems, together, as an integrated effort. This integrated approach is essential to creating a high-performance building, especially if it's to be energy-independent. On selected commissions, we also offer design/build services, providing the client a single-source of responsibility for the entire project..
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High above the desert basin that holds Tucson is the site upon which the Arroyo House is built. The breathtaking views and the close proximity to the pristine surroundings of the desert make this area both a wonderful place to live and a challenge requiring the utmost in environmental responsibility.
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