California?s Casa Aguila is the ultimate eco-conscious house Welcome to Home of the Future, a four-part video series co-produced by Curbed and The Verge. Each month, we'll take you inside one innovative home and explore how the technology of today informs the way people will live in the future. To follow along, stay tuned for new video episodes on our Facebook page. This month?s location" The ultimate eco-conscious home.
From solar roofs to advanced home batteries to designer rainwater harvesting barrels, we live in an age where if you want to do something eco-friendly with your house, there?s probably a solution out there. This couldn?t have been more true for California couple Pete Beauregard and Amy McQuillan, who truly pulled out all the stops to build Casa Aguila, their energy-independent passive dream house in Ramona, California. After losing a home to wildfires in 2007, Beauregard and McQuillan set out to build as green a house as possible and one that can also withstand fires and winds common to the region. They enlisted architect Andrew Wilt and Alliance Green Builders for the project, and in January 2016, Casa Aguila was completed as Southern California?s first Certified Passive House.

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Covering 3,123 square feet, Casa Aguila features double-studded walls filled with cellulose insulation to keep the space airtight and cool, as well as triple-glazed ?bullet proof? glass for protection against wildfires and wind debr...