Architecture

At CarbonShack Design, our attentive team of architects and designers approaches each project as an opportunity for creating joyful, luminous spaces, with a keen eye toward minimizing carbon impacts. From passive house standards to thermal insulation, from high-performance windows to smart home systems, we marry low-carbon technologies holistically with architectural design, creating custom-tailored homes that stand in balance with the natural world.

From passive house standards to thermal insulation, from high-performance windows to smart home systems, we marry low-carbon technologies holistically with architectural design, creating custom-tailored homes for our clients that stand in balance with the natural world.

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Design/Build Model

Sustainable design is not just about good intentions but about good integration. Effective sustainable design begins at conception. Creating a holistic structure where all systems work together to reduce carbon emissions and negative environmental impacts works best when done by a vertically integrated firm that conceives, realizes and integrates the design holistically, responsibly, comprehensively.

Featured Project: Cabin of the Woods

Featured Project

Cabin of the Woods

Originally built in the 1930’s as part of a government program designed to entice the public to experience the glories of our national forests, Cabin of the Woods sits at 6500 feet above sea level. Its idyllic high-altitude landscape of California Live Oaks, Douglas fir, Yucca and boulders provides an astoundingly picturesque setting – and compelling inspiration - for this sensitive, well-considered remodel.

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Meet our craftspeople

Alfonso Garcia

Alfonso Garcia grew up in small town Mexico, he learned construction helping the family build the original adobe structure and later "modern" additions in brick.Generational necessity led to the transmission of building techniques, but Alfonso's green building approach is significantly influenced by exposure to historic processes.As a construction coordinator for Home Front Build and CarbonShack, he reintroduced straw plaster due to its historic roots in adobe construction from his childhood and its dual benefits of acting as a carbon sequester and replacing industrially produced materials. Alfonso approaches green construction through the lens of his heritage drawing on the strength that before industrialization many building techniques were low impact out of necessity.

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