ARCHITECTS
Pique Architecture
MANUFACTURERS
Fleetwood
PHOTOGRAPHS
Nicole Werner, Alan Brandt, Bob Woodward
AREA
4175.0 m²
YEAR
2010
LOCATION
Portland, United States
CATEGORY
Houses
Text description provided by architect.
This home sits on a bluff overlooking rolling sagebrush meadows in Oregon’s High Desert with views of the Cascade Mountains dominating the western horizon.
The request for a net zero house necessitated extensive use of photovoltaic panels, ground source heat-pumps, careful consideration of day lighting and shading strategies, and a super-insulated structure.
Italian architect and childhood friend of the clients, Maria Chiara Trevisan created the original vision for the structure as a gift to them.
The three masses, originally conceived as parallelepipedo (rectangular cubes) resting at various angles in the earth, evolved into three shelled structures clad in stone, a loose reference to the Three Sisters mountains which dominate the home’s view.
