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| BrightBuilt Barn by Kaplan Thompson Architects Posted: 22 Sep 2010 09:57 PM PDT BrightBuilt Barn is the first project of BrightBarn project. It is a sustainable design project that want to build a carbon-neutral architecture. Kaplan Thomson Architects and some partners designed this building in Maine.
This is a sustainable prefab building, used as a working studio. This building can also be used as one or two bedroom unit and other type of room needed. This prefab building adapts 5 designing principles : livability, sustainability, affordability, disentanglement, and education. The designer designed this building so it can fit with a lot of needs, sustainable, easy to replicate, can be updated along the time, and of course can educate people about a sustainable and flexible building.
 open floor plan  one bedroom  two bedroom This barn is completed with movable shelving systems and doors to provide flexibility for changing the function of the space. Mechanical loft and additional loft space can be provided also. All of the system in this building are separated physically from the structure, such as electrical and mechanical systems are hidden in the baseboard of the house rather than through the walls. Non-plumbing interior walls are designed to be easily moved within the house.
 the interior  the interior Some sustainable features are also provided for this barn to achieve a carbon neutral building. This barn is made materials that have at least 25% recycled content. All of the framing and woods are taken from local area, not more than 250 miles to reduce carbon emission by transportation. All of the materials, such as paints, adhesives, etc, are chosen from non-VOC materials. Plumbing fixtures have been installed which use significantly less water than typical fixtures. This barn do not need any furnaces for keeping the rooms warm, thanks to R-40 insulation in each part of the barn. Electricity and heat source are also provided from natural resources of sun heating, by using of some solar panels. There are 30 individual 32 in x 62 in solar panels at each side of the roof, that can produce 20 kWh / day ( total 132 kWh / day roughly). Some evacuated solar thermal tubes are also provided to trap the heat from the sun even in the coldest season. The tubes will produce energy, equivalent to 37 gallons of heating oil per day and can save 137 gallons / year hot water.
 the photovoltaic panel and the tubes The monitoring of the energy performance can be tracked from two ways :
 the meters at the east side (three vertical bars at the upper side)
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