This house Designed by Berkley-based McGlashan Architecture is located on a beautiful hillside in Marin Country, near San Francisco. Its form and color are inspired by the hillside landscape. It has three levels and three generations of an extended family live there.

Roofs of all three levels are planted with drought resistant and native gardens. Besides that it is super insulated and designed for passive solar conditioning. With the solar panel array, it is also designed for a net-zero energy footprint. Thanks to generous decks, window walls, and big openings the house is very wheel connected to the outdoors.

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Danny Forster Design Studio philosophy is that a mix of intuitive design decisions and strategies, enabling technology, it is possible for a beautiful sustainable architecture, which can be at a reasonable price to make.

Their vision is to 2700.sq m as Lake House, the first private home in northern Michigan to achieve LEED gold status (a total of 7 states). Omena Lake House is a project that advanced energy modeling software, which is never active systems, and common sense of modern design strategies to create sustainable homes combined, the intention is to connect people to the site a dynamic session. Although the flat roof, and geometric abstraction, the house is part of the history of northern Lake Michigan home a modern, sustainable interpretation of the Lake House.

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