Case Studies

Each project is documented from start to finish as it proceeded.  The epilog contains retrospective info on what worked and what didn't, while the performance contains water and energy usage statistics to date.  There is also a virtual tour for each.

For those interested in the people versus planet tradeoffs, thoughts on what sustainability  and Green Building means to us, should read the Philosophy section, which was largely written before we built anything.

Since green building is a relatively new aspect of a field that has traditionally been slow to change, we don't expect we will make all the right decisions.  Some may even argue that we haven't used the right principles.  Our goal isn't to be perfect, but rather to be part of the baseline that future sensible builders can learn from.

If your unfamiliar with "green building" or  "sustainability", everything you need to know is in  the how to section.

Seattle Home, built 2004

In Concept describes the motivation for the project.
In Design  documents all the design decisions.
In Construction describes what actually was built.
In Epilog is some thoughts about what worked and what didn't.
In Performance is water, gas & electric usage, and an analysis of the results.

To find out who worked on this project, click here.

For a summary of the green features,  see what's different.
To see pictures, take a Virtual Tour of the house.

California Central Coast Cabin

In Concept we we describe the motivation of this project
In Design we document all our design decisions  -- TBA spring 2010
In Construction we describe what we actually built. -- TBA winter 2010/2011
In Epilog we give our on-going thoughts  --TBA 2012 sometime

To find out who worked on the project, click here

For a summary of the green features,  see what's different.
To see pictures, take a Virtual Tour of the house.   -- TBA winter 2011-2012