This Architect’s Cambridge Home Is a Testing Ground for Sustainable Design

MASS Design Group cofounder Alan Ricks upgrades his “not structurally sound” bungalow with innovative materials and enough solar panels to produce more energy than it consumes.

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While living with two children under four years old in a fifth-floor walkup apartment in Boston’s South End, Alan Ricks and Cristina de la Cierva started thinking about a move. When their third baby was born in 2020 during the pandemic, it became a necessity.

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