The Lang/St. Marie Residence is a prefabricated, Net Zero home in the New Jersey shore town of Spring Lake Heights designed as weekend retreat for retired couple from Brooklyn, New York.
The front of the modern Lang/St. Marie Residence blends into its well-established beach neighborhood in scale and appearance. The rear of the home is a fresh turn on modern living. A stunning 16-foot cantilever cuts strong horizontal lines across the landscape and creates a large covered outdoor space.
Landscape architect, Marsha Lea, joined the project to create a breathtaking garden space as a backyard retreat. The relationship with the outdoors was of the utmost importance to the homeowners. A 10ft high by 25ft wide retractable glass wall unifies the rear of the home and the backyard. This feature invokes a strong connection to nature and enables true indoor/outdoor beach living. With the lines between interior and exterior blurred, the home achieves a harmonious flow between the states.
Passive House design principles were employed in the design of the Lang/St. Marie Residence, resulting in low energy consumption for heating and cooling and a cozy, healthy indoor environment. The high performance triple pane windows allow for large expanses of glass and with the addition of a roof mounted PV solar system the home has achieved Net-Zero Building (NZB).
This custom home was translated from the architect’s building information modeling software into the machine language understood by robotic manufacturing systems. Using those instructions, the machines at the manufacturing facility created panelized wall assemblies for the home that were then transported from Maryland to New Jersey and assembled at the job site.