Sustainability, comfort, beauty. This row house is designed to produce as much energy as it uses. “It has exceeded our expectations. It’s such a pleasant space to live in.”
When Washington, D.C. architects Will Teass and his wife Liz Dixon created a home for themselves and their family they managed to realize three priorities with it: sustainability, comfort and beauty.When he bought the original brick townhouse, in the spring of 2020, he did so sight unseen. “We’d always wanted to take on a project of this scale, and, in our mind’s eye, we knew some of the programmatic elements we wanted.
NetZeroRowHouse is a dramatic renovation centred on sustainability. The idea with Net Zero is for the house to produce as much energy as it uses. Teass says the most important elements of going for this was decoupling it from the gas grid. The renovation of the 2,900-square-foot home involved keeping the front façade and pushing back the rear wall. This enlarged the living spaces on all four floors. The lower basement level was excavated to accommodate a rental apartment. The kitchen, dining and living areas on the first floor open out to a deck. There are two bedrooms and a kids den on the second floor.
A third floor was added. It holds the main suite and the home office. Set back from the roof line, it also creates a private roof deck. “We were able to create a space right off a studio home office, with the ability to just open a glass door and walk out there and really take advantage of the city scape. It’s probably our personal favourite.”Teass, of the firm of Teass Warren Architect, in Washington, D.C.
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