Winter in Taos is a study in contrasts. Nights drop well below freezing at 7,000 feet, and the days are some of the clearest and sunniest in the country. A conventional house fights that climate with a furnace and a fuel bill. A Pangea home is designed to work with it: catch the sun’s heat … Read more about How a Pangea Home Heats Itself: Sun, Mass and the Taos Winter
Jonah Reynolds talks with KNCE about the design approach behind Pangea Community: homes that make their own power, water and heat.
Water Is Everything: Acequias, Sacred Stewardship, and Building a Home That Earns Its Water In northern New Mexico, water is not a utility. It is the oldest conversation happening in the landscape, a negotiation between mountains and desert, between snowpack and sky, between neighbors who have shared a ditch for four hundred years. The acequia … Read more about Water is Everything