CHALLENGES AND BEST PRACTICES
Architect Illya Azaroff, who has worked on post-disaster building efforts around the world, said rebuilding is a combination of innovation plus vernacular architecture that responds to regional wind, water and heat extremes.
He said working with nature, not
against it, also is a big part of creating resilient homes.
Azaroff’s +LAB studio combined resilience, environmental regeneration and Universal Design in its Cranberry House in Massachusetts with features that include:
A small building footprint
that preserves and restores a wetland and wildlife area on the four-acre site;
a fully accessible house that allows aging-in-place; a tornado safe room built
to FEMA standards; rebuilding with harvested old timber on the foundation of an
18th-century building; solar power that allows the residence to be powered off
the grid; and a system for harvesting rainwater.
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