ZNETH

Design proposal for a Zero Net Energy Test House (ZNETH). Designs requested by architectural engineering students at Peter Kewitt Institute at the UNO campus from the architectural designers at the UNL College of Architecture with the possibility of a design being actually built.
No designs will be built as is. In fact, it would be shocking if the final structure resembles any of the student design proposals in any way.
Especially this one.

Site was in neighborhood just east of the PKI in Omaha, along Woolworth Street. Neighborhood context consisted of small 20's bungalow style houses.



Design focus on passive solar shading and heating on the exterior (louvers) as well as the residents experience of the interior space (the window-well slices through the whole house).

Final Board

A couple last minute revisions to the competition board to clean it up a little. Two 24x36 boards stacked on top of each other (cut on the horizontal line down the middle of the page).

deMaterialize - An "Integrating Habitats" Proposal

My latest school project, a proposal for the national competition "Integrating Habitats. A design competition" sponsored by the Metro association and located in Portland Oregon. The purpose of the competition is to integrate and average city residential neighborhood into the natural environment, added infill housing to increase neighborhood density in the process.

My proposal focuses on the built structure, using the structure of the trees themselves as inspiration for the design of the house. A single family structure, three stories and a roof garden/deck. It is essentially a glass box cantilevered off of a structural, circulation, and mechanical core (the trunk) on the north side. The glass walls dematerialize the structure, thereby literally integrating it into the natural and existing neighborhood context. This dematerialization also gives residents the feeling of living within nature and the trees themselves. The east and west walls are covered in vines and vegetation, providing sun screen from the harsh morning and evening sun while giving the existing neighborhood houses a visual context of having a natural feature in their backyards, instead of another house.