Prefabulous Small Houses
We are excited to share that two of our projects have been included in bestselling author Sheri Koones’ newest hard cover book! Prefabulous Small Houses, published by Taunton Press, covers a wide variety of prefab construction types, in homes ranging in size from 400 sq ft to 2000 sq ft. Our Little House on the… Read more »
Belfast, Maine Solar Project
The Belfast landfill is the site of a forward thinking PV installation, demonstrating how a brown field can be converted to a renewable energy power plant using the sun. The project was developed by the Belfast Energy Committee, lead by Sadie Lloyd, in partnership with Revision Energy in 2015. These photos show how good ideas… Read more »
AIA Maine Awards
We are very excited to share that we have received three awards from AIA Maine this year. Cousins River residence received a Citation, and Little House on the Ferry received an Honor Award, both in the Single Family/Residential category. Our Warren Woods Ecological Field Station received an Honor Award for Institutional projects. Cousins River Project… Read more »
Cousins River Residence Receives Editor’s Choice Award
We are pleased to share that Fine Homebuilding Magazine has selected our Cousins River Residence for their Editor’s Choice Award in this year’s 2016 Houses Awards. Their article, featured in this month’s issue, highlights the comfortable, minimal floor plan of this 1600 square foot home. The intentionally simple forms of the residence and screened porch,… Read more »
20th International Passive House Conference
Matthew and Alan are on their way to Darmstadt, Germany today to attend the 20th International Passive House Conference. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first ever Passive House building! Following the conference, Matthew and Alan will travel through Sweden for several days to visit prefabricated Passive House wall manufacturers. These next two… Read more »
Design Palate Cleanser: The Pavilion Scheme
We wanted to share a fun project that our design team recently developed: this rendering of a 2100 square foot residence with adjacent 600 square foot garage and workshop represents one of two schemes presented to the client during the schematic design phase, and was voted the office favorite. The layout consists of three structures,… Read more »
Little House on the Ferry Featured in Fine Homebuilding Magazine
We are delighted to have our Little House on the Ferry project featured in the May issue of Fine Homebuilding! This “Project Gallery” feature includes four beautiful photographs taken by Trent Bell, and highlights our use of CLT (cross-laminated timber) panels to construct the walls, floor and roof of these three small structures, thus minimizing… Read more »
NESEA Building Energy Conference 2016
This Wednesday, March 9th, Matthew O’Malia and Alan Gibson, alongside Adam Cohen, will present “Passiv for the Masses” at the 2016 Northeast Sustainable Energy Association’s Building Energy Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Climate change has made mainstream adoption of high-performance buildings a priority, and the Passivhaus standard provides a means to assess and drive the performance… Read more »
Cousins River Residence Featured in Maine Home + Design
Maine Home + Design’s March issue focuses on “Green & Serene: Eco-friendly homes that commune with the landscape” and our Cousins River Residence fits that description perfectly. A wooded bluff above the Cousins River estuary is the location for this 1600 square foot, single-story, high-performance home in southern Maine. Sited in a clearing, to take… Read more »
A Quick Design Palate Cleanser…
We recently had the opportunity to propose design ideas for the façade of an amazing old reclaimed barn. By adding a glazed wall, the traditional barn turns into an art object reflected in the water.
First Church of Belfast Renovations
GO Logic recently completed a major renovation to the entry of the First Church of Belfast, including rebuilding the entry deck, constructing a brick patio, installing granite entry steps and a new ADA compliant access ramp with new entry doors. These restorations were completed just before the churches’ holiday celebrations, and in anticipation of the… Read more »
GO Logic Receives Maine Technology Institute Seed Grant
We are proud and excited to announce that GO Logic has been selected as one of Maine Technology Institute’s Seed Grant recipients this fall, along with 14 other groundbreaking Maine companies. Maine Technology Institute’s raison d’être is to advance Maine’s economic and technological standing and to expand job growth within the state by injecting a… Read more »
Stop Motion Video of Passive House Construction
Interested in seeing how a Passive House is built? If you have 2 minutes, you can watch the whole process, from foundation to siding, through one of the worst winters in recent record! This amazing stop-motion video was created by one of our clients, photographer Josh Gerritsen of Donkey Universe Farm. Josh shot over 25,000 photographs over the course of… Read more »
GO Logic Community Involvement Leads Belfast Towards Net Zero
The City of Belfast, Maine recently installed a 122kW solar electric system on a capped landfill, previously the city dump. This will be one of the largest municipal solar installations in the state. The reuse of the landfill to generate 20% of the electricity used by the city is another demonstration of the forward thinking… Read more »
Masters of Architecture
GO Logic is pleased to have our Little House on the Ferry project featured in this month’s issue of Maine Home + Design. The December Architecture Issue celebrates architects and their projects from around the state.