The exte­rior is ren­dered with hand-made bricks, zinc roof­ing and deep set wood win­dows. These more tra­di­tional mate­ri­als are com­posed into a tightly reg­u­lated geom­e­try which empha­sizes the pure forms of each wing or sec­tion. A large glass canopy at the entry and a motor­ized glass “wind screen” at the west ter­race present the only tech­no­log­i­cally com­plex ele­ments on the exterior.

The inte­rior of the house is a fully expressed mod­ern envi­ron­ment. Dis­tinct rooms blend together uni­fy­ing the entire house into one large spa­tial con­tin­uum. Over­sized hall­ways become gal­leries and in the case of the sec­ond floor hall­way, they grow into large rooms. Five large sky­lights dis­trib­uted in dif­fer­ent areas fil­ter soft, dif­fuse day­light into the house elim­i­nat­ing the need for much arti­fi­cial light­ing dur­ing the day­time. Three large bed­room wings house en suite lay­outs that are also nat­u­rally lit.

At the cen­ter of the house is a large open wood stair­way that wraps around a glass ele­va­tor. The size and pro­por­tions of the stairs make it more of another spa­tial area instead of sim­ply a ver­ti­cal access. The ele­va­tor shaft is sky lit allow­ing light to fil­ter down into the base­ment level.

Sup­port­ing the func­tions of the house is a com­plex MEP sys­tem using sev­eral sus­tain­able energy approaches includ­ing, geot­her­mal heating/cooling, roof panel solar col­lec­tion, PV pan­els, well water and many sus­tain­able build­ing mate­ri­als. This mechan­i­cal sys­tem uti­lizes a multi source, heat pump exchange design which in daily oper­a­tion pro­vides nearly 35% of the energy required to oper­ate the house through pas­sive energy sourcing.