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Architecture | 13 Jun 04 | Stumble
Solar-powered house with horse stall…
… instead of garage. Solar power and a horse. Talk about low impact energy efficient living. This open plan house has a truncated roof peak capped along its entire length by a wide glass strip. A sleeping loft in the main living space is made of recycled, narrowly spaced douglas fir slats that create a canopy over a dining table/woodstove - a massive, cast-in-place, concrete element which stores passive solar heat and heat radiated from a wood stove tucked underneath. The house is clad with local, untreated, green (recently milled) pine boards. The boards are spaced for ventilation and set out from the building on battens, creating a wide air space buffering the building against extreme heat and cold. From the designer-architects who make the Float Tea Lantern.
ARCHITECTS: Stephanie Forsythe, Todd MacAllen
LINK: forsythe-macallen.com
LINK: Float Tea Lantern
