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Best Green Houses
In our newest Web-exclusive feature, GreenSource presents a running list of residential projects that exemplify both creativity and sustainability in their designs. Every month, we select a different home for an online tour that highlights its sustainable elements.
Discovering Modernist Savannah: Passive in the Peach State Ferrous House
January 2012



Photo © Doug Edmunds
Discovering Modernist Savannah: Passive in the Peach State The Giving Trees
December 2011



Photo © Sue Barr
   
Additional Projects
01/2012
Ferrous House: As Isn't: An efficient modernization transforms a small suburban home beyond ticky-tacky recognition.
12/2011
The Giving Trees: In a wealthy quarter of London, decorative panels are a converted attic's beauty and brains.
11/2011
Funky Chicken: The Chicken Chapel is a hip prototype for the next wave of urban farming.
10/2011
Discovering Modernist Savannah: Passive in the Peach State
09/2011
Overhead and Underfoot: An evolving housing prototype employs a raised floor system and a double-height volume.
08/2011
This New Old House: In rural Wisconsin, a modest building inspired by barns embodies sustainability knowledge of many vintages.
07/2011
Taking Precedents: A hangar form evokes an earlier time and achieves ahead-of-the-curve performance.
06/2011
Minimize, Then Energize: A two-step process reconciles a house’s large physical footprint with its environmental impact.
05/2011
Down to Earth: A hill-hugging residence bucks the norm in Marin County.
04/2011
Rugged Individualism: A rammed-earth house accommodates a farmer mentality.
03/2011
More Than Meets the Eye : Our three-part series concludes with a Hong Kong apartment that solves dorm-room dimensions—24 different ways.
02/2011
Reuse in the Rear: Part two of our series on small-scale living explores a historic garage that gets a renovation for all ages.
01/2011
Tree People: A three-part series on small-scale living kicks off with a tiny home that celebrates Tu B’Shevat.
12/2010
Grounded: A nature-loving couple’s home merges with the Marin Headlands.
11/2010
Hogan’s Heroes: Hank Louis’s design-build students realize an adapted Navajo housing type in salvaged materials.
10/2010
Open-Minded: For his straw-bale home, an architect tries something bolder—and more exposed to the elements—than normal.
09/2010
Multiplicity: A city residence is equipped with systems and materials that wear many sustainable hats.
08/2010
Striking a Balance: Although CCS-Architecture didn’t pursue sustainable design dogmatically, it still prevented a second home from tying to the grid.
07/2010
Sprouting Wings: A butterfly-roofed house solves a site condition, and supports good health.
06/2010
Team Spirit: A Thorough House Renovation Gets Green with a Little Help from a Lot of Friends.
05/2010
Heirloom Minka: Architect Yasuhiro Yamashita’s personal campaign to revive a vintage Japanese building type.
04/2010
Back to the Future: A guest cabin near Yellowstone asks, “What’s the style of sustainability?”
03/2010
Sun and Shape, Poetry and Patina: The Copper House offers a glimpse of what sustainability could look and feel like.
02/2010
The Wee Ski Chalet: To go sustainable, a mountainside cabin starts small.
01/2010
Weaning Off Groundwater: A house just outside of Tucson, Arizona, prepares for water savings.
12/2009
Cape Case Study: A fledgling studio melds architecture and technology to design two homes on Cape Cod
11/2009
Rockill Doubleheader: This month we explore the latest handiwork by the students of Dan Rockhill’s Studio 804
10/2009
Make a New Plan, Dan: Aiming for better passive-design standards, Dan Rockhill opts for a courtyard plan.
09/2009
A Forward Glance: At a quartet of residences in Seattle, a long-term vision—of future users’ needs, and of the city’s evolution—yields a flexible design today
08/2009
Philadelphia Freedom: A townhouse prototype demonstrates that sustainability needn’t cost a premium
07/2009
Upgrade U: Taliesin students translate a longtime tradition into an urbane guest residence
06/2009
Haute Écologie: A tony residence near Athens combines glitz and green
05/2009
Good Things, Small Package: A two-bedroom house and the subdivision it hails from defy Texas conventions
04/2009
Lux et Tepidus: Passive solar design eases a family’s transition from Arizona to Toronto
03/2009

Farm Fresh: Appearances are deceiving at a Vermont farmhouse

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