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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Introduction:
Creating a new garage hobby barn live space to support your existing home in a rural or suburban setting can be an exciting and rewarding project. To ensure a successful outcome, it’s important to follow key steps and best design and planning practices.
Those taking steps to determine space usage requirements, assessing existing building and site infrastructure, and permitting needs. It’s also critical to consider aging in place, accessibility, and universal design principles for forward adaptability to changing lifestyles and life chapters. With a frequently unstable climate, it is critical to meet or exceed energy efficiency standards and improve resiliency to climate shocks. This easy-to-understand guide will walk you through these and other important planning and design steps.
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A new project
Arocordis Design likes to create stunning rustic and modern custom homes for clients in Vermont. In this article, we will take you through our journey of a recent new net-zero rustic modern home for a new client that is both eco and family-friendly.
Sustainable home design is very popular in Vermont because of its many benefits to the environment and its occupants. At Arocordis Design, we strive to design eco-friendly homes that are energy efficient and use natural resources like local materials, energy efficient building construction and systems, sunlight, and wind. We are now designing such a home in Northern Vermont for an owner-builder family who will soon move back to Vermont.
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At Arocordis Design, we often collaborate with clients who have eyes bigger than their stomachs, or honestly, home design ideas bigger than their budget. If this sounds like you what do you do in cases like that? Whether a new custom home, addition, or major renovation this mindset applies equally well. As Vermont architects, we advocate for and design harder-working buildings and spaces that do more than one job. This short article focuses on interior space planning and design but also can be applied to the design of an overall new home or large addition or wing.
What does doing more than one job mean? Well, toss out single-use rooms like a dining room or a formal entry area. Work to integrate that dining function into a flexible open space living area. Create a mudroom that doubles as the main entry. With ideas like this,…..
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Natural inspiration
Rusting corrugated metal siding has a pleasant timeless appearance. You can often find it on exterior signs, buildings, bridge construction, storage tanks, and sculpture, or other works of art including residential design. A favorite artist, Richard Serra, used it in landwork sculptures at Storm King on a meandering steel wall through the landscape.
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