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September 19, 2009 - Rand Soellner Architect has been creating home designs for decades, and also peformed the site selection analysis, programming, site planning and conceptually designed the New Florida Solar Energy Center in the 1980s. This is one home architect with strong commercial and technical experience, long before the term “Green Home Architects” and “Green Design” were even coined. His latest home designs incorporate time-tested energy-efficient home design techniques along with cutting edge systems, features and materials to result in some of the top green home designs in the World. www.randarch.com
“Back then, it was called Environmental Architecture, Energy Efficient Architecture, Energy Conservation, Environmentalism and Ecology,” said Soellner. Since then, Rand Soellner has designed energy efficient homes with recycled materials, many in mountainous regions.
Two of his latest generation of home designs, his “Mountain Retreat Series” are under construction now, one in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, the other in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. These projects use bold timber frame trusses for the roofs, a technique Soellner has perfected in his mountain home designs, utilizing elements of post and beam home design, timber frame home design and conventional construction, creating a blend called “hybrid” construction for mountain home designs.
Soellner said that he has developed one of the few Energy Star + Energy Efficient Home + Healthy Home Design Specifications in the World. “I used to fix sick governmental buildings in Central Florida,” he said, “it is surprising what you can learn studying the mistakes of others. Some of these buildings were designed by large engineering firms.”
Rand Soellner Architect techniques are a combination of time-tested common sense and cutting edge high-technology. Soellner recently started a series of press releases, the first of which was called “Se Habla Green,” in which this leading custom home architect begins his first Green Home Architects Checklist, something that he said he has never seen until now. Armed with the techniques Soellner has acquired from sources like his Energy Star Partnership with the US DOE/EPA and his own hard-won experience over decades designing both custom homes and commercial projects (he was architect of record on about half of Jurassic Park for Universal Studios in Orlando), Soellner continues to design Green Homes.
Some of his techniques are as simple as specifying that the contractors on his custom home projects use 2 smaller dumpsters instead of one larger dumpster. One is for recycled materials, the other for landfill debris, which reduces the carbon footprint on the planet from his projects, he explained.
Other features are more high-tech, such as optional LED lighting, which uses approximately 1/6th the amount of electrical energy for lighting as incandescent light bulbs. Soellner co-analyzed the newer LED lamps (the technical term for light bulbs) versus conventional incandescent bulbs with his themed Mountain Resort Design Team electrical engineers, Beaudin Ganze Consulting Engineers. Click here to see that post.
Some things in Soellner’s Green Design homes are as simple as instructing owners to use their drapes. “Some things are just common sense,” said Rand Soellner, “you pull your drapes closed during hot summer days in rooms where you don’t have much of a view, and open them during sunny winter days, to admit the sun. It is amazing the amount of energy you can save on your utilities using this simple technique. Soellner also specifies double-pane insulated glass with low-E coatings to improve the efficiency of his window areas.
Rand Soellner Architect has many designs in the Cashiers, Highlands, Lake Toxaway, Glenville, Brevard and Asheville, North Carolina area, and also has projects throughout the USA and the World. He intends to continue refining his Green Home Architects techniques and when he has developed enough for a book, he said he will probably entertain an offer that Images Publishing made to him last year when they included several of his projects in House With A View, a full color glossy coffee table book about the best mountain homes all over the World.
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Phone: 828-743-6010
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