Shape Architecture and B.PUBLIC Prefab Announce Exciting Design Collaboration for High-Performance Homes
Innovative Partnership to Release New Signature Home Plans Monthly Through 2024
DENVER, CO, September 9, 2024
Shape Architecture and B.PUBLIC Prefab are thrilled to announce their trailblazing design collaboration, leveraging their combined expertise to deliver a series of high-performance, high-quality, and delightful home plans. This partnership, marked by innovation and sustainability, will see the monthly release of new signature home plans available for licensing through the remainder of 2024. These two leading companies in Passive House join forces to offer homeowners and developers beautifully designed homes to be built with B.PUBLIC’s panels for healthy, low-energy, low-carbon long-term sustainability.
Shape Architecture, renowned for its sustainable architecture, building science expertise, and compelling, site-responsive designs, has joined forces with B.PUBLIC Prefab, a leader in high-performance prefabricated building solutions. This collaboration merges Shape Architecture's award-winning design approach with B.PUBLIC Prefab's cutting-edge prefab panelized construction, resulting in homes that are visually striking and built to the highest standards of performance and sustainability.
Each home plan, meticulously crafted by Shape Architecture and constructed with B.PUBLIC Prefab’s wall/roof/floor panels, embodies the future of residential living. These plans emphasize energy efficiency, durability, and modern design, setting a new benchmark for high-performance homes.
Key Details of the Collaboration
Monthly Releases: Starting this September, a new signature home plan will be unveiled, providing a diverse range of options for prospective homeowners and builders.
High-Performance Focus: Each design is crafted to meet the highest standards of energy efficiency and environmental responsibility, leveraging B.PUBLIC Prefab’s advanced prefab technology.
Ongoing Partnership: This initiative reflects a commitment to ongoing innovation and collaboration, with plans to continue releasing new designs throughout 2024.
“We are excited to embark on this journey with B.PUBLIC Prefab,” said Steve Scribner, Principal at Shape Architecture. “Our shared vision for high-performance living and commitment to sustainable design make this partnership a natural fit. Together, we are setting new standards for what is possible in modern home design.”
“Partnering with Shape Architecture allows us to showcase their beautiful work and offer a Shape original,” adds Charlotte Lagarde, COO at B.PUBLIC Prefab. “We have been fans of Shape for many years. Both teams have worked together and have the utmost respect and joy in collaborating. This is going to be fun for our clients to work with these great professionals.”
The first of these signature home plans will be revealed on September 14th from the Colorado Green Building Guild’s Green Home tour, with subsequent releases scheduled for the remainder of 2024. Builders, developers, and homeowners interested in licensing these cutting-edge designs are encouraged to visit www.bpublicprefab.com/collabs for more information and to explore the exciting new offerings.
The Cascade House (named after the dramatic and serene landscape of Northern Washington), is designed to be compact and efficient while expansive and flexible. At just 1,660 sf, it includes three bedrooms and a generous common kitchen/ living/ dining space, as well as a small home office, mudroom, laundry room, and pantry. A screened-in porch off the dining room and generous covered patio expands the useable space significantly, helping integrate the simple footprint into the landscape and enabling a truly indoor-outdoor lifestyle. Small on cost and square footage, big on natural light, flexibility, efficiency, and connection to the land!
About Shape Architecture
Established in 2016, Shape Architecture Studio is an award-winning, values-driven company committed to pushing the limits of sustainability and design. They are passionate about creating positive impact in communities across the country, through attainable, site specific architecture that embraces the passive house standard.
At Shape, sustainability isn’t just a buzzword; it’s a guiding principle. This means using energy modeling and building science to drive energy use to the lowest levels possible. And importantly, they strive to do this at competitive price points - it is their mission to make truly sustainable architecture accessible to everyone, without compromising on aesthetics. They work hard to create delightful, site-specific work that is appealing and approachable for people of all tastes and preferences - by making Passive house levels of sustainability attractive and affordable to a wider population, they are helping drive demand for better buildings, and together with B.PUBLIC are excited to move the needle toward a lower-carbon society. SHAPE was announced Winner of AIA Colorado “Young Firm of the Year 2024 on September 12, 2024.
For more information, visit www.shapearchitect.com
About B.PUBLIC Prefab
B.PUBLIC Prefab is a leader in high-performance prefab construction, specializing in creating sustainable and efficient building solutions. With a commitment to quality and innovation, B.PUBLIC Prefab transforms the way homes are designed and built, offering a range of prefab options that meet the highest performance standards, including Passive House. B.PUBLIC Prefab launched the COLLABS portfolio of pre-designed home plans in 2023 with HereAbout Homes and will continue to partner with leading architects to offer a wide range of home plans from ADUs to TownHomes. B.PUBLIC is a woman-owned public benefit corporation based in New Mexico, working across the US with leading green architects and builders for new construction. For more information, visit bpublicprefab.com.
About Collabs
B.PUBLIC Collaborations (Collabs) brings together leading architects and the B.PUBLIC studio to offer clients beautiful and deeply sustainable pre-designed plans for new construction. As a prefab manufacturer focused on high-performance sustainable materials, B.PUBLIC supplies prefab structures to Architects and Builders across the US. Their innovative design and fabrication support the speed and accuracy of craftsman construction to custom projects. COLLABS is an opportunity for customers to access world-class architectural design and sustainable construction through a beautifully curated collection of home plans. Design collaborations have a long and exciting history from leading fashion brands, artists, celebrities, and designers - B.PUBLIC’s COLLABS is unique as it is a way for the mission-centered corporation to make exceptional architectural designs and green excellence an accessible option for individuals and developers. COLLABS is a program that showcases timeless designs and forward-thinking architects that B.PUBLIC is proud to celebrate.
What is Passive House?
“Passive House design empowers us to manage moisture, thermal transfer, air, and sunlight to create comfortable, healthy, super-efficient buildings. The “classic five” Passive House design principles—continuous insulation, thermal bridge-free design, airtight construction, high performance windows and doors, and filtered fresh air with heat recovery—are joined by the principles of shading, daylighting and solar gain, efficient water heating and distribution, moisture management in assemblies, and building orientation to create durable, high performance buildings where people can thrive.
The Passive House approach empowers us to build better. It creates durable, resilient buildings that slash heating energy use by as much as 90% and dramatically reduce operational carbon emissions. Passive House design tools and methods make these energy performance gains both cost-effective and predictable. You know what performance to expect with a certified Passive House.
Most importantly, Passive House buildings create healthy, comfortable, and quiet interior environments, full of clean, filtered fresh air.”