Building science and architecture
High-performance homes designed for Colorado’s mountain climate.
Comfort, efficiency, resilience, and beauty developed together.
High-performance residential architectural design brings site planning, form, enclosure durability, comfort, energy efficiency, and construction documentation into one coordinated process.
Building orientation, form, glazing, shading, insulation continuity, air control, moisture management, ventilation, and mechanical coordination all affect comfort and durability.
Salida Plan Studio combines residential design with practical building-science knowledge to develop homes suited to large temperature swings, intense sun, wind, snow, dry conditions, and wildfire considerations. Performance goals are coordinated with views, proportions, materials, indoor-outdoor connections, and the way the home will actually be built.
The result is architecture in which comfort, efficiency, resilience, and beauty support one another from concept through construction documentation.