TYPE: Single-Family, Multiple Sites
STATUS: Planning
The design of buildings on complicated and crowded urban sites requires a commitment to efficiency and flexibility. Our most successful city projects have benefited from a creative response to specific constraints, but what happens when we can design without the usual imposed limitations of urban sites? The VACATION HOME series offers a new opportunity to rethink traditional vacation homes by employing our efficient and pragmatic design approach to sites in secluded settings. We’ve stripped down the remote vacation home to only the essential elements, which reduces both the initial cost of construction and overall energy consumption over the building’s lifespan. These vacation homes utilize energy-efficient wall assemblies with carefully located high-performance windows, and will be thoughtfully oriented to capitalize on passive daylighting and photovoltaic panel opportunities.
