The client wanted curves, and high performance too. They got both. This solar home heats itself. Just close the door behind you and come back to a warm and comfortable house without using fossil fuels.
Read more: Realizing a Green Dream from Martha's Vineyard Home & Garden
Surrounded by Land Bank properties, this home looks out over its farmstead site and provides low-energy living. Some of the prominent materials came directly from the site and the existing 19th century house was saved, moved on the site, and made into a garage and studio.
Read more: Green and Serene from Cape Cod Life.
When a proposed golf course on the pond was turned down by the Martha's Vineyard Commission, our clients bought this large property and put most of it into conservation. We nestled this "home for the ages" into the savannah landscape.
Read more: Balance of Power from Custom Home.
Eight zero-energy-possible houses designed and built for the Island Housing Trust in West Tisbury.
Read more: From Jenney Way to 250 State Road from Cape Light Compact, Zero-Net Possible? Yes! from SMC and High-Performance Homes on a Budget from Journal of Light Construction.
We developed this 16-house neighborhood (which combines subsidized and market rate affordable housing) from conception to land acquisition, to formation of a group of owners, through the design and construction. The SMC shop and office are located on the adjoining property.
Read more: Island Cohousing from Solar Today, A Deliberate Neighborhood from Fine Homebuilding, and Building Deliberate Neighborhoods from Vineyard Style.
A cluster of 10 houses in a year-round Edgartown neighborhood, four of these houses were the first LEED platinum single-family affordable housing in the nation.
Read more: Nation's First Leed Platinum Affordable Housing from Environmental Building News.
We renovated this sweet beach house with simplicity, color, and calm.
Read more: Give & Take from Cape Cod & Islands Home.
Our clients were ready for their “Final House”—our collaboration with them welded their Japanese, Prairie, and Arts & Crafts inclinations into the beautiful site overlooking Menemsha.
Read more: Well Aged from Boston Globe Magazine.
From the front porch turret to the solar porch roof in the rear, everything about this house was designed to fit the in-town Oak Bluffs site.
Read more: Completing a Neighborhood from Vineyard Style.
On a tiny lot on a quiet little dead-end street, we tucked this high-performance gem between two other small houses.
Read more: Second Time Around from Fine Homebuilding.
Construction begins soon on these two "zero-energy-possible" single floor 3 BR homes for the Island Housing Trust (IHT). This is the second time we have used one of the several designs we created using funds left to us in the estate of Madeline Heath, one of our first affordable housing clients way back in 1980. Last year we used a similar design on land owned by IHT in Aquinnah.
In 2010 we were selected by the Martha's Vineyard Museum (MVM) to do a feasibility study and schematic design for a new museum at the site of the old Marine Hospital in Vineyard Haven. We brought Oudens Ello of Boston in as associate architects for their museum expertise. At the conclusion of the study MVM purchased the property and they are now in the fundraising phase. Ultimately, the plan calls for renovation of the old building and several large new museum spaces.
Our client contacted us to design a solar system large enough to offset all of the energy use on her property. There was no good place to put it. She also wanted a barn/workshop/gallery/greenhouse, so we designed the building to have sufficient space on the south-facing roof for the appropriate number of panels. As the project took shape the solar system became secondary to the creation of a wonderful space.
