Design

Mar 192 min read

Designed for Community

Last week the Pritzker prize for architecture was awarded to Riken Yamamoto for his focus on "multiplying opportunities for people to...

Mar 81 min read

Taking Extra Steps with Light and Insulation

Maybe you saw what we are doing with geo-exchange and what's on the boards for solar -- neither are features you see in standard...

Feb 242 min read

Geo-exchange

Perhaps you saw the recent article in the Chronicle about geothermal energy. We're doing something a bit different -- geo-exchange. What...

Feb 121 min read

Solar

This is one of our garages at the entrance on Lenox street. Notice the pitch of the roof: It faces South and the pitch of the roof is at...

Jan 301 min read

Swales!

As Houstonians we know all about flooding. One of our flooding mitigation strategies is a gigantic underground tank, which traps...

Jan 151 min read

The veg garden

If you look at the left foreground in the picture in the Geocache post January 12, 2024, that's where our vegetable garden will be. ...

Dec 21, 20201 min read

Listen: Texas’s first cohousing community is coming to the East End. Here's what it's about.

By R.A. Schuetz and Nancy Sarnoff | Nov. 6, 2020 We’ve all heard of coworking. But cohousing? Not so much. That’s because there are no...

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