Passive Solar House Design
If you want to build a passive solar home in Nova Scotia, chances are you’ve heard of Don Roscoe. He is a past (or maybe even present, it’s hard to tell from their website) officer of Solar Nova Scotia, and teaches a solar design course, that my wife and I intend to take this fall. [...]
Images our Architect sent us
Our architect Monica sent these images to us along with a bunch of others to help her determine a ’style’ for the the house. We weren’t really into the others, but these really encapsulate our thoughts. A modern design with classic detailing (raw cedar shingles really do it for me!).
The Third Design
I know you’re wondering where the second design went, but our architect needed to take the sketches back to scan them, so here’s the third design.
This is a passive solar design, built on an engineered slab. The windows are designed to be shaded in the summer by the decks and a portico over the main [...]
Our Architect and the First Design
We’re a big fan of modern architecture. One of my clients is Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. We developed and maintain their websites, and I am always in love with what they do, their design-centric process and the thought they put into every project. When we first looked over the lot, Talbot Sweetapple came out to the [...]
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