The architecture firm Min | Day has designed a energy conscious home designed for fluid indoor-outdoor living for purchase through Hometta, a online blueprint database of progressive and sustainable modern houses available for purchase by the masses. Additional images of Min | Day’s design and a description of the home after the jump.
DESCRIPTION: With the garage at one side and the entry in the corner, a walled courtyard at the front of the house is the first of several outdoor rooms in the 2,500 square foot house that foster indoor-outdoor living. The house is composed of three primary volumes on the main level: 1. living/dining/kitchen, 2. master bedroom suite and 3. second bedroom, bathroom, laundry and garage. These three “boxes” surround a semi-enclosed deck that is a true outdoor living room. Behind the deck, a three-story tower connects all elements of the house and provides access to a roof deck and a vegetated roof. The tower creates a vertical core for passive stack-effect cooling that is a central element of our low-energy strategy. Heat can be exhausted from the tower in summer and recovered and re-circulated in winter.
