Located in in Santa Monica – California, Santa Monica-based architecture Jesse Bornstein Architecture was design eco-friendly housing named Green on 19 Townhouse. This project is an architect driven 5-unit townhouse development that integrates green technologies within a modern design sensibility.

With its serial pattern and clean dipartite formal composition capped with semi-transparent bi-facial photovoltaic solar canopies that provide shade for roof decks as well as over 3000 kwh electricity generation per year for each unit, these townhouse are designed to incite excitement and a sense of optimism for sustainable future.

The townhomes also boast other green technologies and materials such as an ethanol burning fireplace in the center of each interior that effectively warms each unit’s entire two-story primary volume, FSC-Certified bamboo for cabinetry and flooring, a lighting system made up of fluorescents and LEDs, low-flow plumbing equipment and fixtures, HVAC equipment that exceeds 90% efficiency and uses non-toxic refrigerant, as well as the use of rainwater for irrigation and urban runoff mitigation and 100% drought tolerant landscaping and drip irrigation.

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