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Chapter One: Green Building Guidelines
Provides the Energy Performance Score, (EPS).
Energy Performance Score
EPS™ is a scoring system that helps define a home’s energy consumption, utility costs and carbon footprint. It’s also a pathway for building and selling homes that deliver superior comfort, durability and efficiency. Energy Trust introduced EPS in 2009, and since then more than 20,000 newly built homes have earned a score.
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For more information about ENERGY STAR Homes Northwest and/or Energy Trust of Oregon EPS program contact your local representative at 541.550.8185.
CHAPTER TWO
Architectural Design
2.1 Design Approach
Homes in Brasada Ranch are to be designed both to allow their natural setting to remain dominant and to compliment the surrounding natural environment. Brasada Ranch is located in Crook County in the State of Oregon therefore Oregon and Crook County building codes are used in conjunction with the Design Review Guidelines in the design of a home. If there is a conflict between county and Brasada Ranch guidelines, the more stringent guideline will prevail.
The architecture of homes in Brasada Ranch, in general, is to draw from the spirit of stately Western ranches and farm dwellings. These classic structures were characterized by: Simple forms combined into attractive compositions, Forms based on the inherent structural qualities of stone and wood, Deep overhangs, Gable and shed dormers on simple primary roof forms, Exposed beams and rafter tails, Materials indigenous to the region.
These characteristics are to be interpreted into the contemporary context of current construction technology and actual usage of ranch homes.
These Guidelines are relatively restrictive in their requirements for traditional massing and forms and exterior materials. Brasada Ranch homes will be characterized by consistency in forms and exterior materials but more latitude will be permissible in the style of the exterior details and fenestration patterns.
Homes at Brasada Ranch will range in style from a rustic, traditional appearance to a cleaner, more contemporary look based on traditional forms and materials.
It is important to provide visual order and harmony in the overall house design. Approval of plans is likely to be denied or conditions of approval imposed when plans include visually confusing, loud or disordered facades (including roof forms, massing, window and door shapes and sizes). It is important that the general proportions of the home, including the windows, doors, and other exterior architectural elements result in a quietly dignified composition and complement the remainder of the home designs in the community.
Windows, and other human-related elements that help communicate interior use, should appear dominant at the main, lower level of the home.
While more flexible stylistically, a very high level of quality is required for all materials and craft in design and construction. The DRC will scrutinize designs to ensure they are well detailed and will favor those that incorporate art and artistry into the craftsmanship.
