Introduction:
In our quest for a sustainable future, the way we design our homes for you and how they connect with the local community and place hold immense significance to us. The harsh realities of the recent 2023 Vermont flood brought this clearly into perspective. With its effects in mind, we are trying to return to a new normal with how we design our homes, major renovations, and additions for you. What is the roadmap? It is unclear. The flood affects certainly highlight the importance of sustainable home design here in Vermont. We have work to do and design and building practices to reassess.
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When it comes to building a new home, it's important to work with an architect early on in the process. At Arocordis Design, a Vermont residential architecture firm, we have guided local families since 2010, through the planning, design, and construction of modern, sustainable homes. By working with us from the beginning, you can help maximize your investment and achieve the home of your dreams.
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BEGINNINGS
Late last year a couple approached us to adapt our Inside-Out House, a net-zero-ready prototype home design we created a few years ago to their land in southern Vermont. We enlarged and customized it to suit their family needs and design goals. Along the way, we pushed the home design in some innovative directions that we share below. We call this home design FieldHouse.
THE SITE
Located on 60 mostly wooded acres in the Upper Valley area in Vermont, our clients selected a forested edge that spilled out onto….
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Our Clients Asked for Design Inspiration
Our clients in Central Vermont who we recently helped with backyard area redesign concepts later asked us back to develop more design ideas, but this time for their lower living level bathrooms.
A five-bedroom home built in 1970, the bathrooms still had their original finishes, molded one-piece shower stalls, sinks, counters, lighting fixtures, and toilets. Still serviceable, but tired out, the clients wanted to refresh and update them for the next generation….
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WING HOUSE BY AROCORDIS DESIGN
Have land in Vermont or elsewhere and seeking a new home design to build? Arocordis Design has developed another dynamic small house design prototype. It joins earlier ones such as Inside-Out Home, Modern Farmhaus, and others. We call it Wing House. We designed it along classic modern lines, uplifting roof forms,
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A new small prototype green home we have in design. 1,300 sf +/- of single level living space, 2 bedrooms, flexible kitchen-dining-living area whose space extends to a generous terrace and pergola. The single living level recognizes the growing need for homes allowing older homeowners age in place, reducing the need to further downsize....;
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