This net-zero energy private residence for a solar power activist is located in a New Urbanist development in Longmont, Colorado. Public and private regions are defined through the isolation of formal massing. The independently articulated volumes shift and rotate over one another, generating a tapering geometry which addresses contextual alignments, spatial requirements, and passive solar strategies.The resultant wedges expand in opposing directions, and the stair tower’s inflated exterior wall traverses their opposite tapers, suggesting a centrifugal tension between them. A solar canopy of translucent photovoltaic panels soars over the roof deck and covers all electrical loads, while a massive concrete wall bisects the building, passively conditioning and exposing itself to all spaces. More info: http://www.adamrude.com/Brigham-Residence