What is the right prescription for southern high performance residential architectural design and building? In our evolving practice we now recommend a prescription of high-performance solutions on every project. From a humble renovation to custom new home built to Passive House criteria we consider features in a following order of priority according to our client’s budget. Tighten It Up The first priority is to seal the house to provide 1 air change per hour or less minimu

Earlier this month, our first completed passive house was featured in Lake Martin’s Lake Magazine. Our goal is to constantly design better houses for our clients and this is a big step towards accomplishing this. Check out the article and learn how this design approach can use less energy and save you money! Click the images to enlarge and read more. Download the PDF here. Bryan Jones #PassiveHouse #residentialarchitecture #published #LakeMartin #JonesPierceStudios

Moving Towards a High Performance Architecture In architecture school, the only studio class we had beyond design and theory was given by a sandal-clad professor reacting to the 1970’s energy crisis. Norbert Lechner had a passion for passive solar design. He had a goal to develop students’ studio designs with solar orientation in mind. He assigned each of his students to create an adjustable stand for use in the college sun simulation model. Unfortunately, our passive solar