The ultimate modern home high design and high performance in the Sierra foothills

摘要

As a California design-build com-pany focused on high-performance homes, we have been planning for nearly a decade on the state requiring all new houses to be net-zero energy by the year 2020. At this point, nearly all of our projects are net-zero houses, deep energy retrofits, and Passive Houses. The Fine Homebuilding House-which we call the Good Haus (a play on Dave's name)-is a zero-net-energy house that far exceeds California's progressive energy building code.As this is our own home, it is an opportunity to explore how far we can push the intersection between design and the high-performance construction techniques that we have developed as our firm's best practices. As the home for our family of four, it embodies our beliefs about resiliency, efficiency, and design. All three of these principles played a part in our unusual approach to the foundation.