Davis Studio A+D / pieceHomes has been working with Asani, a forward thinking developer on Bainbridge Island, which is just a short ferry ride from Seattle. We are designing Grow Community, the first residential One Planet Community to be built in North America. This zero net energy community, located on eight acres adjacent to the urban core of Winslow, will include 50 single family homes, 81 rental units, a central community building, as well as some commercial spaces. Home buyers can choose from four different home styles and several town home lofts, some of which will be available as rentals. These modern homes are warm and welcoming using interior finishes that have been selected for both their sustainable qualities and also to create inviting, comfortable living spaces.

A New Standard in Green Housing
Grow Community has been endorsed as the first residential One Planet Community to be built in the US. All homes will extremely energy efficient with on-site photo voltaics. This will create not only zero net energy homes but an entire zero net energy community. In fact, the community has been designed to be zero carbon by 2020. The on-site photo-voltaic solar panel arrays will generate enough energy to off-set that used by each house thereby greatly reducing monthly energy costs and more importantly their carbon footprint. These homes will be pre-fabricated in an off-site factory as panels and then trucked to the site where they will be assembled in the course of a week. Finish work will be completed once the shell is assembled and the homes will be ready for occupancy in approximately three months.

photo: anthony rich
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More info: growbainbridge.com
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