Window placement is one of the most significant factors in improving natural light within a space. For instance, an apartment can have windows only on one side. Still, it can illuminate two different rooms if planned strategically.
The Parkview Passive House in Victoria, BC is a vision of the future. The two-story, single-family home & apartment suite is an ultra energy-efficient certified Passive House. The refined simplicity of the design creates a modern Scandinavian…
Recently completed in February 2019, Axiom Desert House made its debut as a Featured Home at this year’s Palm Springs Modernism Week—turning heads as a stunning, systems-built jewel that is now the private residence of designers Joel…
Villa 9010 is a new, two-storey, energy-efficient home for a young family in the seaside village of Dalkey, South County Dublin. Constructed in the side garden of the Client’s redbrick childhood home, at the entrance to a typical…
The strategy used for an energy-efficient home is to reduce its consumption by means of good covering insulation of the building and a good use of the heat gain and loss.
Double High House reimagines the classic suburban lot as an elegant, energy-efficient home. By stretching a slender volume along the north edge of the site, the design maximizes southern solar exposure and fosters seamless indoor–outdoor living.
This unique house from Portland, Oregon, is an example of adaptation and reuse of an old building. Starting from this old building which is formed of three structures that have been made in different periods of the…
