ZeroEnergy Design: The English Residence

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Location: Orleans, Massachusetts
Designer: ZeroEnergy Design
Construction: Cape Associates

ZED designed this residence to replace the original building but remained true to the family traditions that have developed since the land was purchased in 1958.

The new home offers year-round living and continues the legacy of a modern artistic home, treading lightly and focusing on the outdoor environment. New features include the clean, green feeling throughout the house, healthy indoor air quality, very comfortable and stable temperatures from the radiant floors, and exceptional energy performance with renewable energy systems. And, the artist family members immediately felt that the new home’s bright red, orange and cedar colors really ‘made the house.’

On the ground level, an open porch provides indoor/outdoor living with safe, step-down decking as stairs, which can also be used as seating for larger family events. A roof deck on the second level of the house offers the wonderful feeling of living in the trees, with a glass rail to open the view and an outdoor kitchen for entertaining. Abutting the roof deck is a lush, living green roof built to fill the view with green vegetation at eye level while seated, as well as provide insulative value, energy savings and reduce roof run-off from storm water. The second level rooftop reveals 2.5 kilowatts of solar electric panels which provides approximately 30% of the home’s electricity.

The construction of the home features specialized hurricane-resistant structural reinforcement and windows for coastal storm conditions, spray foam insulation in the wall cavities, rigid foam to eliminate thermal bridging and a mix of fiber cement and cedar siding on the exterior for long-term durability and low maintenance. Flooring finishes consist of rapidly renewable bamboo in the living areas, travertine tile at the entries, recycled glass tile in the bathrooms and FSC certified Garapa decking on the porch and roofdeck.

This project is ENERGY STAR Certified, and has been registered with the USGBC LEED for Homes program in an effort to achieve LEED Gold certification.

What Makes it Green

• Energy: Grid-tied solar electric system, solar hot water system plumbed, radiant floors, hydro air system, energy recovery ventilator, open & closed cell spray foam insulation, rigid insulation, ENERGY STAR Certified HERS 39.

• Health: Whole house ventilation and allergen filtration system, low or no-VOC materials/sealants/paints, hard floor surfaces, rainwater management with dry wells, motion detection ventilation in bathrooms.

Source: ZeroEnergy Design

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December 10th, 2009 by signaltree
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