Healthy Sustainable Holistic Design by Architect Bruce Millard in Sandpoint


PREVIOUS NEXT	JANA LANE GUEST HOUSE / STUDIO Originally built as a guesthouse for traveling friends and family, this building is now the home of the Studio of Sustainable Design. The architect and his friends built the 500 sq ft, one-story structure with loft in 1998, on his home property at the foot of the Northern Idaho Mountains.

SMALL HOUSES LARGER HOUSES MULTI FAMILY NON RESIDENTIAL ALLEY FRIENDS ARCHITECTS ARCHIVE IN PROGRESS	East Entry Porch South View The structure was built with load-bearing, two-string straw-bale walls. Participants in a three-day workshop learned to stack, compress, and double-coat the walls with cement stucco. They learned that air-bag compression produces strong, well-insulated walls. Ecological features include recycled foam ICF a grade beams on a rubble trench foundation, recycled wood ICF a shower walls, sun-facing summer ventilation, and radiant floor heating. More ecological elements include a waterless composting toilet, bluegrass straw-board wall finishes, a reused entry door, glass blocks, and wood timbers. Western Loft Windows Wall Alcove in Strawbale Reversed Roof Dormer The shape is a simple rectangle with curved end walls. An eastern porch draws in sun during the winter and shade during the summer and adds outdoor living space. Salvaged hand-peeled logs and beams frame the entry. Southern windows and a reversed roof dormer fill the interior space with light and passive solar warmth, while venting summer heat. High western windows create views from the sleeping loft. Studio Interior to East Studio Interior to Loft Window Shelf Winter View Glass Sun in Stucco Stone & Tile Floor Detail The radiant-heat concrete floor is finished with hand-made clay tiles and detailed with inlaid pebbles from the shore of Lake Pend Oreille. Colored glass artwork decorates deep slate windowsills set in white stucco walls.


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