Earth Origins Construction LLC
Albuquerque's Green Home Builder
sustainable. home. community.
| Our Projects: Our Eco Inspired Home Located in the heart of Albuquerque's North Valley, "Our Eco Inspired Home" was designed to respect and honor the beauty and health of the earth, synchronizing green construction technologies with organic, natural aesthetics. This home reflects Earth Origins Construction's commitment to blending green building innovations with breathtaking beauty. Builder/Designers Paul and Anita Chavez created this home to embody the spirit of New Mexico's skies, earth, water, trees, stones, and golden, glowing light. Choices about structure, form, materials, and colors were born from an intuitive process mirroring an artist painting joy and a sculptor shaping experience. From the soaring, mountain resounding exterior to the sinuous vigas echoing living trees to the stone river running through the concrete floors to the multicolored, stratified rammed earth trombe walls to the stainless steel tree countertop inlay, "Our Eco Inspired Home" is art celebrating nature. Aesthetics intersect with form in the "how" of the home's construction. At the forefront of every building-related decision was the question, "How can this be made green and more earth-friendly as compared to more conventional approaches?". Areas of focus included energy efficiency, the "greenness" or sustainability of materials (factors like the embodied energy, renewability, and low/no toxicity of products used), healthy indoor-air quality, water conservation, and environmental impact. Some of the many green features are: passive solar orientation, advanced framing techniques, R-50 ceiling & R-44 wall cellulose insulation, rammed earth trombe walls for thermal mass, natural cooling design, energy recovery ventilator system, American Clay walls, bamboo cabinets, cork flooring, low-VOC wood stains and sealers, low electromagnetic field design, grey water & rain roof catchment systems, native landscaping, low-water flow fixtures, "active-ready" passive radon control system. The projected Home Energy Rating Score (HERS) is 56. Earth Origins Construction is currently applying for the Build Green New Mexico Gold designation. For a detailed summary of the green building technology used on "Our Eco Inspired Home," please click here. Photo Journal of "Our Eco Inspired Home". Completed home photos and virtual tour will go live April 2009. |
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