It’s a mouthful of a name – eco-hyperluxury – but that’s the billing for a new, $3.5 million home in Boulder, Colorado, whose creators hope to prove that living in luxury can save the world.
The 5,000-square-foot home, at 2002 Alpine in downtown Boulder, is the result of a collaboration between American designers and German engineers using such materials as wood from a “consciously-managed 300-year-old forest,” a gray-water treatment system and an entirely non-toxic, hyper-allergenic interior with high-end fixtures. Designed by Boulder architects H:T Studio and built through a partnership between the German engineering firms Vireo and WeberHaus, the home also boasts a connection to Porsche automobiles. Porsche engineers worked with WeberHaus’s factory to improve efficiency, flow and systems engineering. So it’s not such a big stretch to say that this high-performance house takes its cue from a high-performance car.
There were challenges in the process, like reducing construction site waste from the usual 17 percent to just 2 percent. But the result, according to developers, is a home that breaks with nearly every convention in contemporary homebuilding to challenge assumptions about how we relate to our living spaces and our planet.
“We’ve heard it all – that green and luxury can’t coexist; that it’s impossible to build a home with cutting-edge CAD-CAM construction and hyperprecision,” says David Scott of Colorado Landmark Realtors, who has listed the property. “And it was all wrong. 2002 Alpine offers more performance per square foot than any home I’ve ever seen. This isn’t a house for 20 years like the average American home. It’s an iconic home for generations to come.”
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