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Welcome to Stanford Start Home.

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The Start Home was designed as a passive solar house.

You can see that we have this main living space as you first come in the house.

We have a lot of south-facing windows to

offer passive solar gains, heating the house in

the winter, and then also opening up to

facilitate cooling in some of the warmer months.

We have the PV array on the, on the roof, so it's about

a six and a half kilowatt array, which makes this house net zero energy.

So it's a passive solar design but also net zero energy and grid tied.

So, when we're producing more energy than we're consuming,

we can actually sell that back to the grid.

All of the, kind of the wet systems back here, the kitchen sink,

the refrigerator and and the ventilation, are all part of the main core.

The core essentially provides all of the MEP systems for the house.

So it's mechanical, electrical and plumbing.

And the idea is that you have this factory-made core.

That delivers all of those essential services to your house.

If you manufacture them in large quantities and

then ship them to the final site where people

can build a customized house around that then

you get a much more affordable green living space.

What we wanted to do with this house was not just

automate all of the systems so that it's energy efficient by default.

But inform the user, so that instead of just an

energy efficient home, that you have energy efficient or sustainable people.

And a lot of that happens throughout the interaction points with the house.

So one of those interaction points is right here.

We call it the room switch.

We have a steady pulsing of light behind the touch interface, and

the rate of pulsing is indicative of how much energy they're consuming.

You can control any electronics in the house from any of the switches.

So you make it very easy to get your house into its lowest energy consumption state.

We wanted to design something that would help minimize, water use.

because we were focused a lot on energy with different aspects of the house.

But in the bathroom, obviously it's a great big water

hog, both with the toilet, the shower, and the sinks.

So we decided to look at the sink, and figure out

a way to make it more of a passive off state.

So with that in mind, we designed this we call it kind of the push sink.

And so I just lean into it, and I can wash my hands or wash my face,

and, and it's all actuated down here just by

like a subtle, almost a natural lean in movement.

And so that was just another unique

interaction point that, that kind of makes you think

a little bit more about when the necessary times are for the water to be running.

People feel like this house is so much larger.

And I think a big part of that is, is this back deck

and how it just transitions and blends so naturally with, with the interior.

And it's covered by this wonderful pergola that is optimized for, for solar shading.

We're going to have an edible garden and there's, there

are planter boxes that are lining the entire house.

Thanks for stopping by, Stanford Start Home.

Our team's proud to keep designing

homes that are comfortable, affordable, and sustainable

so that the house of the future can become the home of today.

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