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"After really listening to our needs, Thomas designed a beautiful sustainable home for us on time and in budget."

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EcoHomes

Build your dream home

Do you want a beautiful, practical, environmentally responsive home at a fair price? You can ensure your family's comfort by making your home less dependent on traditional energy sources. A new or remodeled home utilizing passive solar design can save more than 90% off your heating and cooling bills. This is a better return than traditional investments. Plus, solar homes can be quite beautiful and are much better for your health and our environment.

Harness the sun's free energy
Improve the comfort of your home
Stop unwanted heat loss
Stop unwanted heat gain
Healthier for you and your family
Lesson your dependence on volatile, dirty fuels

Whether you just want to remodel your current home or build a whole new EcoHome*, the internationally experienced, award winning, ecologically conscious firm, Doerr Architecture, can help you realize your dream.

*EcoHome (ê´kô hôm), n. a home that is both ecologically responsive and economical. An EcoHome is healthier for you, your family, and the planet because it does not waste resources, off-gas toxins, or unnecessarily harm the environment. An EcoHome will save money on your energy and healthcare bills long into the future.

The green expertise of Doerr Architecture's principal, Thomas Doerr, was honed as past chair of the Colorado chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment. He authored the Green Architecture Checklist for Residences and edited the Green Architecture Checklist for Commercial Buildings. He was an assistant editor of the Rocky Mountain edition of The Sustainable Design Resource Guide. Thomas also passed an exam to be a Certified Green Points Architect.

Thomas keeps apprised of the latest developments by regularly attending conferences such as the Congress of New Urbanism (CNU) and Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED). With this expertise, Thomas can design your home so that it is healthier for you, your family, and the planet. Even if you were not concerned about the environment, it would be smart to design ecologically because green design saves you money.

"I believe architects can help our environment both by designing buildings to be less of an impact on our earth and by creating expressive and humane urban environments so persons don't flee cities to sprawl over our wild lands."

— Thomas Doerr

We specialize in green architecture and ecohomes. Thomas Doerr is a sustainable architect. One of the Colorado green architects specializing in solar home design, Doerr Architecture offers meaningful, humane design. Green architects in Colorado rarely specializes in both expressive and solar home design. The best design to save money is ecological design. We have a great reputation building ecohomes focused on sustainability. Doerr achirecture offers affordable design of passive solar homes. Of all the green architects in Denver Colorado metro, Doerr represents a strong committment to solar home design. Boulder Colorado sustainable home architect can offer solar home design. Green architecture is economical. Thomas Doerr is past chair of the Colorado chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment for solar home design. Doerr has worked with good Denver green architects. We design colorado solar homes. Recent design projects by this Colorado green home architect include the Boulder Co-op Market - Boulder Colorado, the Finch House -Denver Colorado, the Krueger-Cunningham House - Boulder Colorado, the Troxell-Murphy House - Boulder Colorado, and the Massage Therapy Center - Steamboat Springs Colorado.