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September/October 2000 Backwoods Home Magazine
A passive solar-heated tower house
Integrates thermal mass, radiant floors, solar-heated water, natural ventilation, and solar-electricity.
By Stephen Heckeroth mill town dating back to a time when The design response to the client
water was pumped by the wind and and the site was to nestle the 2,000-
This project is located on a four- stored in tanks located on towers for square-foot six-story tower and its
acre parcel outside Albion, California, gravity pressurization. They fell in 350-square-foot attached green-
three miles east of the Pacific Ocean love with the old towers and in 1979 house/sun space into the earth on
on a ridge above the fog. The home is went looking for someone to design three sides and expose it to the south
a six-story, passive-solar water tower, and build a tower for their family’s where a large clearing permitted good
planted between redwoods on three land on Caspar Point. The land at this solar access. The tower house is heat-
sides, yet open to the sun on the south site was best served by an earth- ed by the sun and cooled by natural
side. bermed structure, so the tower waited ventilation. Roof-integrated flat-plate
For many years, the clients had been until a more suitable site was found. solar collectors provide the domestic
visiting Mendocino, a historic coastal Constr