Thinking Beyond Sustainable Architecture
"There is a magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air, costs very little, and builds itself. It's called... a tree."
In our practice, we focus on designing homes—human habitats if you will—that require less energy to maintain. To meet the energy demands that remain, we provide solutions by way of solar technology to achieve a net zero energy status. But to rebuild, to work towards a positive ecological impact, we need to extend outwards—we need to think beyond our walls and into our yards, our forests, our streams, our watersheds.
As we rely on the ingenuity of our species to find solutions to the climate realities that are coming home to roost, we will also do well to remember the inherent resilience of the natural world—not so that we can continue on our current destructive path with abandon, but so that we can incorporate this innate tendency towards life, towards balance, towards growth, into holistic solutions as we envision the future of our lives on this planet.
It is pretty cool.