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  • Hi.

  • Welcome to Stanford Start Home.

  • Come on in.

  • 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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