Satish and his wife Ping are relocating from California and Texas to NC.  Satish is in the energy industry and always dreamed of building his own net zero home.  We were honored to get to work with him and Ping on this project which features not only rooftop photovoltaics plus a backup storage, but also a rooftop water collection system to water their vegetable gardens..  

 

Satish and Ping are both gourmet cooks and asked for their kitchen to be the heart of their house.  This kitchen will produce multiple CUISINES - Chinese, Indian and more!  It is an "aromatic" kitchen which allows for cooking fragrant foods at very high temperatures while isolating the cooking odors from the rest of the house. This required us to design the kitchen so it could be completely closed off from the other rooms when needed.   We hope they will share some fantastic Indian and Szechuan recipes with us!

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We've also designed this house so that the main bedroom suite for Satish and Ping is separated from the rest of the house with a little floating "bridge" -- (the floating wooden element in the photographs).  This creates a "quiet zone" for Satish and Ping for when they have visitors, such as exuberant grandchildren!