Passive House Wall Section Development, Part III
Having covered the basics of our previous wall designs, we should probably start to tell you all about what we’re building now. What follows is good for all: a tonic for the energy nerd, free advice for the builder, and the promise of reduced cost and complexity for the homeowner. In the prefab wall panels… Read more »
Passive House Wall Section Development, Part II
When a client stepped into our office looking for a cost-effective micro house for their property, we knew our first prefab project had just walked through the door. The program called for a single level, 600 sq. ft. open floor plan. A simple layout meant that the house could be constructed with only five panels;… Read more »
House on a Knoll featured in The New Small House
Our House on a Knoll residence, completed in 2011 (also known as our 1000 square foot predesign plan) has consistently been one of our most inquired about projects. It has been featured in magazines and books, including The Best of Fine Homebuilding: Small Homes, Cabins & Cottages and Fine Homebuilding’s Energy Smart Homes. Most recently,… Read more »
AIA New England Design Award for Little House on the Ferry
GO Logic is honored to have been awarded an Honor Award from the AIA New England Design Awards for our Little House on the Ferry residence! This prestigious award recognizes “excellence by New England architects, and projects in New England by architects beyond the region.” Recently featured in Dwell Magazine, Little House on the Ferry is… Read more »
Sheldon Calvary Camp
Unlike a the compact residential cube one might imagine when thinking of a typical passivhaus, the newly designed dining hall at Sheldon Calvary Camp (SCC) is an expansive 9000 sq ft building in Conneaut, Ohio that will include conference facilities and great views of Lake Erie. SCC is working with GO Logic to innovate form… Read more »
Passive House Wall Section Development, Part I
A three part series on making a passive house wall that’s leaner, faster, lighter, flatter, and less “holey” than thou. What’s the key element to developing a leaner, faster, tighter, less expensive Passive House envelope? Surround it with smart, skeptical people. It’s a formula that has worked well for GO Logic, where we’ve continually fostered… Read more »
A Grand Award for Little House on the Ferry
We are honored to have received a Builders Choice & Custom Home Design Award for our Little House on the Ferry project. This 682 sq ft seasonal residence was acknowledged with a grand award in the Custom Home Under 5,000 Square Feet category. Located on the island of Vinalhaven, off the coast of Maine, this… Read more »
Little House on the Ferry Featured in Dwell
We are pleased to announce that our Little House on the Ferry project has been featured in the October issue of Dwell! Beautiful photographs and a compelling story focus on the design, siting and construction of these three cabins on the island of Vinalhaven, off the coast of Maine. The three small structures, consisting of… Read more »
Wolfe’s Neck Master Plan Featured in Maine Home + Design
GO Logic’s Wolfe’s Neck Master Plan has been featured in Maine Home + Design’s August issue! The Wolfe’s Neck Farm Master Plan, developed in collaboration with Ann Kearsley Design, is an agriculture-based educational and recreational campus, located on a 626-acre saltwater farm on the shores of Casco Bay in Freeport, Maine. The master plan involves… Read more »
Cornerspring Montessori School Capital Campaign Passes $500,000 Mark
Principal Matthew O’Malia was interviewed recently for WABI TV5, by reporter John Krinjak, about the new Passive House standard, GO Logic designed school building for Cornerspring Montessori School. The capital campaign for Cornerspring Montessori recently passed the $500,000 mark, and groundbreaking on the new school is scheduled for this fall. You can watch the entire segment… Read more »
GO Logic Intern Takes on Climate Change
We would like to congratulate College of the Atlantic graduate, and our summer intern, Saren Peetz, for the great work on sustainability that she is doing in Bar Harbor! Saren’s work was featured in the New York Times article “A College in Maine That Tackles Climate Change, One Class at a Time”. Saren’s internship with GO… Read more »
19th Annual International Passive House Conference
GO Logic principal Matthew O’Malia of GO Logic will be presenting “Warren Woods Ecological Field Station: First Certified Laboratory in North America” as part of the Innovative Projects From All Over the World session of the 19th Annual International Passive House Conference in Leipzig, Germany. The presentation, on Saturday, April 18th at 4:10pm, will cover… Read more »
First Panelized Building Installed
Our first panelized building has been installed! After much work on this advanced building technology, including a trip to factories in Austria to learn more about Passive House panelized processes, GO Logic has installed our first home using a prefabricated, panelized building system incorporating locally produced factory panels from our shop in Waldo, Maine. Located… Read more »
Passive House as Educational Tool
The bright yellow Potwine Passive House, designed by GO Logic, is not only incredibly energy efficient, it’s educational too. Owner Alexi Arango is a physics professor at Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and this fall he began using his home as an example of attainable, energy efficient building in the United States. The reaction from… Read more »
Warren Woods Featured on Inhabitat
Our Warren Woods project has been featured on Inhabitat! If you’re not familiar with Inhabitat, it’s a blog focusing on sustainable design and technology in architecture, interiors, transportation, fashion and art. You can read more about our Warren Woods project for the University of Chicago here.