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SUN Studio harnesses local climate and passive strategies to create neighborhoods, buildings, and landscapes for healthy, sustainable urban lifestyles.
SUN Studio is an award winning design firm specializing in sustainable urban neighborhoods. We provide full spectrum planning and design services, from the scale of the community to the scale of the home. We pride ourselves on our ability to listen to our clients to achieve their sustainable project goals and work effectively with jurisdictional staff and consultants to gain entitlements, permitting, and coordinate detailing and construction.
03/31/2026
Recent residential remodel by David Kahn of SUN Studio
Beyond Boulder bubble, a solar farmhouse on 9 acres The excitement of the Sundance Film Festival arrives next year, and Boulder real estate agents report seeing buyers wanting into what locals call the “Boulder bubble.” But Compass agent Coleen Sanders has a property that reaches for someone hoping to be close to the bubble, but seeking more elbo...
10/12/2023
Geos
10/06/2023
Geos Neighborhood
05/20/2022
SUN Studio’s Geos Neighborhood in Arvada. Phases 2 and 3 are proceeding with passive solar homes, but the residents of Phase 1 want the new developers to continue the fossil fuel free and high performance accomplishments of Phase 1. Progress is difficult. But we greatly appreciate the support for this vision from Geos’ residents. Progress does not happen without support at the grass roots.
Life In a Fossil Fuel-Free Community No gas? No problem for the Geos neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. As one of the few net-zero energy developments in the world, the members of this community ...
12/28/2021
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28122021/fossil-fuel-free-neighborhood-buildings-colorado/
A Dream of a Fossil Fuel-Free Neighborhood Meets the Constraints of the Building Industry - Inside Climate News Dar-Lon Chang moved to this Denver suburb to start a new life. In Houston, he’d spent 16 years as an engineer at ExxonMobil, the nation’s largest fossil fuel producer. In Colorado, he planned to pursue a career in renewable energy, but the real draw was his new house. Oriented towards the sun, w...
12/03/2021
Silo Neighborhood, Lafayette
11/13/2021
The TV News. No credits to the designers who conceived of the neighborhood, but that's normal.
A town set to be global example for green energy is under siege - CNN Video Once set to be a global example for green energy, the eco-friendly Colorado community of Geos, is now threatened by new developers and gas companies. CNN's Bill Weir reports.
11/11/2021
GEOS
This Colorado community was proof an all-electric, net-zero future is possible. Now that vision is under siege A new developer took over and upended this net-zero community when it announced natural gas lines would be installed in the newest homes, shattering the dreams of current residents.
07/09/2021
Geos streetscapes today
02/19/2021
Article about one of Geos's residents!
A disillusioned ExxonMobil engineer quit to take action on climate change. He found his net-zero place in Arvada. For 16 years, Dar-Lon Chang worked as an engineer at ExxonMobil. Fresh out of graduate school, he was by all accounts exactly the type of person the company is known for hiring: smart, driven, diligent. From his base at Exxon’s sprawling campus outside Houston, Chang helped the company maximize pr...
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