HSU House
Danby, NY; 2009 - ongoing
Currently under construction, the Hsu House, is scheduled for completion in summer of 2010. It is a small 2200 sq.ft. house designed using passive solar principles to create an inexpensive, energy efficient dwelling for a young family. Rising out of a hillside south of Ithaca in upstate New York, the bifurcating monopitch roof covers a house organized around a three story main living space, which functions as both spatial nexus and a trombe wall assisted ventilation stack. This space is bifurcated by an interior south facing concrete heat sink mass wall, which stores sensible heat and animates light, creating an all season solarium that, in the summer, opens and unfolds into the natural landscape.
Design Principals: Dana Čupková, Kevin Pratt; Design Team: Monica Freundt, Kyriaki Kasabalis, Man Kim, Jamie Pelletier General Contractor: Paul Hansen, Hansen Design & Construction; Mass Wall Form-work Fabrication: Frank Parish, Cornell; SCCM, LLC
Danby, NY; 2009 - ongoing
Currently under construction, the Hsu House, is scheduled for completion in summer of 2010. It is a small 2200 sq.ft. house designed using passive solar principles to create an inexpensive, energy efficient dwelling for a young family. Rising out of a hillside south of Ithaca in upstate New York, the bifurcating monopitch roof covers a house organized around a three story main living space, which functions as both spatial nexus and a trombe wall assisted ventilation stack. This space is bifurcated by an interior south facing concrete heat sink mass wall, which stores sensible heat and animates light, creating an all season solarium that, in the summer, opens and unfolds into the natural landscape.
Design Principals: Dana Čupková, Kevin Pratt; Design Team: Monica Freundt, Kyriaki Kasabalis, Man Kim, Jamie Pelletier General Contractor: Paul Hansen, Hansen Design & Construction; Mass Wall Form-work Fabrication: Frank Parish, Cornell; SCCM, LLC