The Olansky Residence The Olansky Residence is a retirement, mountain home. It is specifically designed on a single level for aging in...

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

The following are still images from a video fly through animation of a new vacation and future retirement home in Highlands, North Carolina. We love repeat clients, and have had the opportunity to work for this client on other jobs in the past, and hopefully more to come. The home is located up a site with a steep slope over looking the mountains. Because of the challenging grade, the home’s design has a very small footprint. This locates all the living spaces on the upper le

Recent clients from Montana got in touch with Jones Pierce to help them create a “not so big” retirement home for them. The site is located in the Big Canoe community of North Georgia, near Jasper. The home not only incorporates “not so big” detailing, but it’s also designed around the sun. Known as a passive solar design, this home’s aim is to maintain interior thermal comfort throughout the sun’s daily and annual cycles while reducing the requirement for active heating and

The Site – Highlands, NC Within a golf community, the site was heavily forested and included an EPA-governed stream, which pushed the house close to the street. There was little room to transition from road, to driveway, to woodland-facing privacy. Naturally, the house would stretch horizontally along the stream. This established the home’s most prominent feature: the long rear porch, which is accessible from all the public spaces in the house. The Style Wanting inspiration