Home Headquarters, the Center of Excellence and Syracuse University sponsored the “From the Ground Up” home design competition to obtain cutting edge eco-friendly building designs. Architects from across the country as well as international firms submitted plans. The three best designs were selected and built. Today these homes are unique and prominent features of the Near Westside neighborhood in Syracuse. Click here for design summary and team credits from design competition.
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Live.Work.Home
The Live.Work.Home provides a flexible space that can be used for a variety of purposes. This house’s unique exterior design allows for efficient and smart use of natural sunlight and extra security while providing an attention-grabbing view from the street.
- Structural Insulated Panels - SIPS are structural panels for building that are made from a thick slab of Styrofoam sandwiched between OSB boards (oriented strand board). SIPS cut down on material waste and construction time, while providing extra insulation value.
- User friendly radiant floor heating uses hot water-filled tubes inlaid two layers of flooring to efficiently keeping the living space warm.
- Heat Recovering Ventilator (HRV) brings in fresh air and distributes it throughout the house, improving air quality.
- Lumber from deconstrucion - This house is especially unique in that it used lumber from the house that previously sat on this lot for the finished wood floors and cabinetry, reducing the overall amount of new materials and lumber used.
- Sun tubes are used to collect light and reflect it downward into the living space. These let in more light than a traditional skylight.
- Reflective screen panels on exterior can pivot to either shade windows, or reflect natural light inside.
- No VOC paint contains no “Volatile Organic Compounds” which are contained in many regular paints, and have been found to be harmful to human health and the environment.
- Bathrooms are equipped with low flow toilets and shower heads to reduce overall water usage.
- Slabs were poured with concrete containing fly ash. Fly ash is a coal-fired by-product. When added as a filler to concrete, it reduces fly ash waste in landfills.
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