Green design is much more than a catchphrase bandied about by eager-to-please politicians and hopeful hippies—it’s become a necessity. Sustainable building technologies are now part of the design guidelines for everyone from the federal government to private industry. To help push home design in the same direction, Dwell invited five of Los Angeles’s top firms to create a sustainable single-family home in Los Angeles. We hope it will help establish a progressive model for future housing.

Firm: Escher GuneWardena Architecture
Sustainable Elements: Living roof, convection ventilation, airfloor, and photovolatic panels
Project Team: Frank Escher, Ravi GuneWardena, Abbie Chung, Brian Hart, Anupama Mann, Bojana Banyasz

Issue Updates:
Making Modern Green, Jan/Feb 2005
A Sea of Paperwork, March 2005
Shades of Green, June 2005
Getting Tanked, September 2005
Site Specifics, Oct/Nov 2005
Long-Term Investments, Dec/Jan 2006
The Living Roof, Feb/Mar 2006
Clearing the Hearing Hurdle, May 2006
Within These Walls, Dec/Jan 2007

Video
Watch Breaking New Ground, a video presentation of the Dwell Home II.
(best viewed with a broadband connection, 28 MB .mov file)

Photos
See photos from Breaking New Ground event in LA on March 26.

Our Sponsors:
We'd like to thank our Dwell Home II sponsors.


Additional Resources
Dwell Home I
The Dwell Homes by Empyrean