How was the roof designed?
The roofs and roof decks are super-insulated with a radiant heating and cooling “sandwich” at the ceiling, polyisocyanurate insulation, ventilation space, waterproof OSB [oriented strand board], cellular glass insulation, a radiant snowmelt sandwich at the roof that incorporates recycled newspaper panels, and copper sheeting at the roof deck and zinc-coated stainless steel sheeting at the roofs. The entire thing is designed for disassembly, and has an R-factor of over 65. How is the house designed for disassembly? The organizing principle here is despite the fact that the building is built to last – the full life cycle of the materials and assemblies are thought through in the design phase. The building is designed to be taken apart, either as individual assemblies or as a whole. Each assembly is evaluated using green or sustainable criteria. Also, each assembly has materials that have similar lifespans. The exterior wall assembly, for example, has field and quarried stone, AAC [aerate
