Modern Cape Cod Beach House by ZeroEnergy Design

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This large beach house on Cape Cod is the weekend and summer home for a large Boston family — the home owners often share the space with their adult children and grandchildren. By meeting the needs of seven couples and children, the design maximizes communal spaces with a large open kitchen, dining and living room in the half of the home with the master bedroom — dubbed "The Living Bar." The other half — "The Sleeping Bar" — is home to all the extra bedrooms and bathrooms for the extended family and can be shut down in the off season when not in use, saving energy...

The home was designed by ZeroEnergy Design, a
architecture and energy consulting firm. Though it is large in size, the home features a geothermal system, radiant heating system, solar electric array on the roof, energy efficient fixtures, appliances and lighting systems. Read all about this "environmentally sensible home" here.

Via: Contemporist.

(Images: Eric Roth)

Comments (6)

How fantastic This is respectable green building design, not just greenwashing, from the indigenous non-irrigated landscape to the no VOC flooring and insulation. The next logical step I would expect them to take is buying furniture that is produced in the same vein, but this doesn't appear to be the case. Acceptable interior design, a bit dated and vanilla, but I love the light. I want to slide across the floor in my stocking feet.

posted by jacksonlalonde on May 5th 2009 at 9:24am
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I love the space and light!

posted by Esther414 on May 5th 2009 at 11:00am
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If you're gonna build a 6200 sq/ft / 7 bedroom vacation place - This is the way to do it.

posted by bepsf on May 5th 2009 at 12:32pm
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oh, lord heaven on earth.

posted by Haunted_Studio on May 5th 2009 at 1:38pm
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Gorgeous. Agree with bepsf; if you are going to build big, build like this.

posted by Sydney on May 5th 2009 at 3:24pm
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If I had access to a vacation house like this....I would have to quit my job and become a bum living off of the rest of the extended family.

posted by baileyb on May 5th 2009 at 7:53pm
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