Select Passive House Designs

Not every project is built, or professionally photographed. Nonetheless, all of our designs share the same ethos, heart and soul.

We are motivated by our clients’ challenges and respond with experience, confidence, and patience to help pioneer the highest level of sustainability in building design.

Our holistic approach delivers ultimate performance and efficiency blended with beautiful and functional custom design.

  • Economy and Efficiency: Our designs build on smart allocations of resources—including your money.

  • Health and Comfort: Cozy. Quiet. Clean. Fresh.

  • High Quality and Durability: Detailed planning. Quality construction. Predictable outcome."

  • Functionality and Beauty: Compliment your lifestyle with an adequate and thoughtful design.

  • Eco-Friendliness: Minimize your footprint, maximize your quality of life.

  • Sustainability: We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

  • The Bottom Line: Our holistic sustainable designs reduce your utility bills to a minimum, to nothing, or to the point where your home pays you.

  • The Big Picture: Think globally. Build locally.

Sweeney Lake
Passive House Plus

  • Type: Large, free-standing, single family home

  • Construction: New construction, mixed ICF and wood

  • Location: Minnesota, suburban, lakefront

  • Pre-Certified: Passive House Plus - Project ID 4853

Project Details

  • Passive House Design: TE Studio

  • Structural: Eric Bunkers, Bunkers and Associates

  • Mechanical: TE Studio

  • Interior: InUnison Design

  • Landscape: Laurie McRostie Landscape Architect

  • Certification: Passivhaus Institut Darmstadt

  • Project: 2014-2016

  • Renderings: TE Studio

  • Photoshop Magic: Richard Leonard Schultz

Pine Island Multi-Generational (LEB)

  • Type: Large, new construction, free-standing, multi-generational home

  • Construction: New construction, mixed ICF and wood

  • Location: Minnesota, rural

  • Pre-certified: Passive House Low Energy Building - Project ID 7183

Project Details

  • Passive House Design: TE Studio

  • Structural: Align Structural

  • Mechanical: TE Studio & Windsor Engineers

  • Interior: Design Studio B

  • Landscape: Coen + Partners

  • Civil: Widseth

  • Builder: Mike Allen Home Builders

  • Certification: Herz & Lang (Passive House)

  • Project: 2021-2023

  • Renderings: TE Studio

Center Lake Horse Farm

  • Type: Free-standing homestead with outbuildings

  • Construction: New construction, mixed ICF, exposed concrete, wood

  • Location: Iowa, rural

  • Performance: Passive House

Project Details

  • Passive House Design: TE Studio

  • Mechanical: TE Studio

  • Project: 2014-2015

  • Renderings: TE Studio

  • Photoshop Magic: Richard Leonard Schultz

Arden Hills Passive House

  • Type: Free-standing single family home

  • Construction: New construction , mixed ICF and wood

  • Location: Arden Hills Minnesota, suburban

  • Performance: Passive House

Project Details

  • Passive House Design: TE Studio

  • Structural: Eric Bunkers, Bunkers and Associates

  • Mechanical: TE Studio

  • Landscape: Laurie McRostie Landscape Architect

  • Project: 2015-2017

  • Renderings: TE Studio

Rice Creek EnerPHit Pilot Project

  • Type: Free-standing single family home

  • Construction: Exterior and interior retrofit, remodel and addition, wood

  • Location: Fridley Minnesota, suburban

  • Pre-Certified: EnerPHit Pilot Project - Project ID 6494

Project Details

  • Passive House Design: TE Studio

  • Mechanical: TE Studio

  • Builder: Owners

  • Certification: Peel Passive & Passivhaus Institut Darmstadt

  • Project: 2011-2016

  • Photos:

    • Owner

    • TE Studio

Blue Lake Cottage

  • Type: Free-standing cabin

  • Construction: New construction, mixed ICF and prefabricated wood

  • Location: Wisconsin, rural, lakefront

  • Performance: Passive House Low Energy Building

Project Details

  • Passive House Design: TE Studio

  • Project: 2016-2017

  • Photos & Renderings: TE Studio

  • Photoshop Magic: Richard Leonard Schultz

Driftless Passive House

  • Type: Large single family home

  • Construction: New construction, mixed ICF and wood

  • Location: Wisconsin, rural, creek

  • Performance: Passive House Plus

Project Details

  • Passive House Design: TE Studio

  • Mechanical: TE Studio

  • Structural: Align Structural

  • Builder: Bad Axe Log Homes & Supply

  • Project: 2020-2023

  • Photos & Renderings: TE Studio

Sweet Tree Passive House

  • Type: Large single family home

  • Construction: New construction, mixed ICF (exposed concrete interior), wood and steel

  • Location: Minnetonka Minnesota, suburban

  • Performance: Passive House Plus

Project Details

  • Passive House Design: TE Studio

  • Structural: Mattson Macdonald Young

  • Mechanical: TE Studio

  • Interior: InUnison Design

  • Landscape: Laurie McRostie Landscape Architect

  • Project: 2015-2018

  • Renderings: TE Studio

  • Photos: Mattson Macdonald Young

WBL Passive House

  • Type: Large, luxury single family home

  • Construction: New construction, mixed ICF (exposed concrete interior), wood and steel

  • Location: White Bear Lake Minnesota, suburban

  • Performance: Passive House

Project Details

  • Passive House Design: TE Studio

  • Mechanical: TE Studio

  • Interior: InUnison Design

  • Landscape: Travis Van Liere Studio

  • Project: 2013-2015

  • Renderings: TE Studio

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