Civitas is the first zero-energy and zero-carbon building in the world to achieve ILFI certification and is certified LEED Platinum for Homes.
The architect/owner wanted to design a progressive single-family home that represents the values of his family of three while opening up the design process firm-wide to support learning and experimentation in design, construction and operation. The home occupies a 6,000 square foot corner lot that was a greenfield site in a twenty-five-year-old new urbanism subdivision built on a small peninsula of land in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. Sited to frame a magnificent view of the Mississippi River and delta beyond, it relates in comparable scale and simplified massing to its traditional surroundings. (Archimania)