Architecture
At CarbonShack Design, our attentive team of architects and designers approaches each project as an opportunity for creating joyful, luminous spaces, with a keen eye toward minimizing carbon impacts. From passive house standards to thermal insulation, from high-performance windows to smart home systems, we marry low-carbon technologies holistically with architectural design, creating custom-tailored homes that stand in balance with the natural world.
From passive house standards to thermal insulation, from high-performance windows to smart home systems, we marry low-carbon technologies holistically with architectural design, creating custom-tailored homes for our clients that stand in balance with the natural world.
Design/Build Model
Sustainable design is not just about good intentions but about good integration. Effective sustainable design begins at conception. Creating a holistic structure where all systems work together to reduce carbon emissions and negative environmental impacts works best when done by a vertically integrated firm that conceives, realizes and integrates the design holistically, responsibly, comprehensively.
Featured Project: New House of Old Wood
Featured Project
New House of Old Wood
This Accessory Dwelling Unit occupies the spot where a dilapidated barn (turned bar/chicken coop) once stood. Moreover, the new flooring, ceiling cladding and cabinetry are all fabricated from lumber salvaged from said dilapidated barn.
Meet our craftspeople
Alfonso Garcia
Alfonso Garcia grew up in small town Mexico, he learned construction helping the family build the original adobe structure and later "modern" additions in brick.Generational necessity led to the transmission of building techniques, but Alfonso's green building approach is significantly influenced by exposure to historic processes.As a construction coordinator for Home Front Build and CarbonShack, he reintroduced straw plaster due to its historic roots in adobe construction from his childhood and its dual benefits of acting as a carbon sequester and replacing industrially produced materials. Alfonso approaches green construction through the lens of his heritage drawing on the strength that before industrialization many building techniques were low impact out of necessity
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