Each of these is a real design — geometry, load path, and in some cases
a costing model — for the arch in a different position. None of them is a product you
can buy yet, and we would rather say so than take a deposit against a drawing set
that does not exist. Read any of them; tell us which one you want next.
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RoofPhab — the roof
Take off the peaked roof, convert it to a flat living deck, and crown part of it
with a glazed arch: a new level of space, a rooftop growing season, and solar heat
for the home below.
Design research
🏠
Solarship — the whole house
The arch at full scale, wrapping an entire home in a solar-passive shell. It
captures more winter sun than any other position, and it is the largest thing the
rib geometry has been taken to.
Design research
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GreenPhab — the growing space
The arch as a four-season greenhouse, with a thermal store under the floor to
carry heat from afternoon into night. Better still with earth tubes feeding it
ground-tempered air.
Design research
🚗
DrivePhab — the driveway
An open, daylit shelter over the driveway that keeps snow and ice off the car and
gives you a bright, dry work bay. Free-standing, or leaning on the house down a
side yard.
Design research
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Earth tubes — under the ground
Not an arch at all, but the same idea one storey down: buried pipe that pre-heats
incoming air in winter and pre-cools it in summer off the ground's steady
temperature. Pairs with any position above.
Design research
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Tell us which one
Which position gets built second is a real question and we would rather you
answered it than we guessed. Pick one and we will write to you when it becomes
something you can buy — not before, and about nothing else.
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