via BrightBuilt Barn
Completed in November of 2008 in Rockport, Maine, the BrightBuilt Barn, a project that pushes the envelope of sustainable design, is the practical outcome of an in-depth collaboration between a team of the Northeast’s top green professionals and builders, and a visionary client coming together to create a super-green, offsite fabricated, and beautiful Net-Zero building that can be replicated and adapted over time.
via BrightBuilt Barn
BrightBuilt has been driven by 5 guiding principles, with Beauty as a prerequisite:
- Livability
- Sustainability
- Replicability/Affordability
- Disentanglement
- Education
While the prototype is a working studio for the client, future BrightBuilt Barns can be reconfigured as one or two-bedroom units and combined in multiple configurations. With large intentions, its mission is to demonstrate an alternative method of building that allows levels of flexibility and sustainability beyond the reach of typical residential construction. This building requires NO FURNACE, even in Maine, and provides owners with real-time, easily understandable feedback of energy use through its “mood ring” LED fixtures. An off-the-grid option is also in the works.