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This new 1,437 s.f. residence is replacing a Butte Creek Canyon home that was destroyed by the 2018 Camp Fire. The owners wanted a house that provided excellent views of the canyon, did not look a production home, was energy efficient, and fit their tight budget. The house house has two bedrooms and two baths with a study and one car garage.
Site conditions, views, slope, street frontage, trees, and other considerations dictate how well a particular site can provide passive solar heating for a building. This site has great southern solar access and we took full advantage of It with large south facing windows under the front porch and high transom windows. These south facing windows with specialized glass, in conjunction with the concrete slab floor, will provide excellent passive solar heating.
Windows face west towards the opposite canyon wall and setting sun. These large west facing windows are under deep overhangs to protect the glass from the harsh hot afternoon sun. We also elected for owner operated shading devices to provide shade when the fixed overhangs cannot. The Master Bathroom and Kitchen have big views of the other canyon wall which the house sits right up against.
Several energy efficient materials and methods were used while staying within a modest construction budget. The roof uses a 12” energy heel to allow a consistent insulation blanket in the attic and BIB (blown-in blanket) insulation was used in the walls to provide an R-23 wall assembly, much better than code requirement and better than standard construction. A cool roof, foil backed roof sheathing, heat pump water heater, heat pump HVAC system, and a whole house fan round out the energy efficiency measures of this house. The owner will also be installing a ground mounted photovoltaic system (solar energy) with a battery backup.
The building qualifies for, and will be receiving, the $12,500 PG&E Advanced Energy Rebuilt incentives.
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Design and 3D renderings by Hyland Fisher, 2019.