Greening 360 Winnett Ave.

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Reminiscent of A PreFab Project, 360 Winnett Ave. is a new site that will chronicle the design + construction of Jeremy Bell’s new home for him, his wife, and their future family. They currently own a small bungalow, and have decided to tear down the existing property to build a larger, contemporary ‘green’ home in it’s place. Working with Altius Architecture Inc., the Bell’s hope that by documenting their experiences building a ‘green’ home they can educate and encourage others to do the same.

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[Image: Front Elevation]

Our story is actually pretty simple — We’re an average couple who is planning on starting a family soon, but we’d like a little more room before we get started.  So we’ve decided to tear down our existing bungalow and in its place build a larger, more modern home.

However, at some point along the way our priorities changed. While we still need the extra space, we’ve come to realize we should be building a smarter home and not just a bigger home.  We’ve also come to appreciate our eco responsibilities and we felt it was important to document the realities that came with this decision [text from Jeremy Bell].

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[Image: Ground Floor Plan]

While things seem to just be under way, you can head on over to the 360 Winnett Ave. site to see the working drawings and some model shots. There should be more to come in the future as things progress – in particular Jeremy has mentioned some time-lapse photography of the construction process and more high-res images as time goes on.

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[Image: Second Floor Plan]

Should be interesting to see how things develop.

::AMNP thanks to Jeremy Bell for contacting us about his ongoing project – we look forward to seeing the house under construction::

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Posted: June 24th, 2008
at 10:00am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, featured ninjas, green arch, housing

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  1. i like! arts and crafts style meets the 21rst century…

     

  2. i don’t understand, you’ll do a whole house teardown w/ a perfectly good house and build over it, and that’s going to be green?

    greenwashing, maybe… but that’s hardly a sustainable model.

    holz

    1 Jul 08 at 4:04 pm

     


 

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