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title: Designer builds efficient off-grid Passive House in Colorado — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/designer-builds-efficient-off-grid-passive-house-in-colorado/
date: 2017-09-29
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# Designer builds efficient off-grid Passive House in Colorado

Twenty years ago Andrew Michler bought a $60,000 solar shack in the Colorado mountains that “immediately fell apart” and inspired two decades of experiments in off-grid living. Today, he and his wife live in the reconfigured shack and he has turned a former shed on the property into an ultra low-consuming Passive House (Passivhaus).