• Truro Residence – An eco-friendly luxurious beach house on Cape Cod

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    ZeroEnergy Design master the art of giving shape to the modern homes touched with green factors. Browsing through their site, I am hooked by the Modern Beach House – Truro. This environmentally sensible beach home on Cape Cod boasts of a solar crown that powers up the whole structure. A battery back-up and energy management system store electricity from the solar array to ensure the basic functions of the home through blackouts without the use of a gas-powered generator. The combination the energy efficient building envelope and systems with the solar array will allow the home to produce as much energy as it uses over the course of a year! Ingenuously designed into two segments, ‘Living Bar’ and ‘Sleeping Bar, it is the Sleeping bar section that is kept shut by programmatic zoning during the majority of the year to decrease energy use.


    Along with foam insulation, geothermal system and s radiant heating system, the temperature of the beach house is maintained in an eco-friendly manner all round the year. Illuminated by energy efficient fixtures, the cooking fuel is also eco-friendly propane. The rapidly renewable bamboo flooring is bound with nontoxic glues.
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