Designed by W3 Architects out of Venice, California, the Beitcher Residence blends the client’s functional requirements with a variety of sustainable design strategies including passive solar design, state of the art solar electric and solar thermal technologies. The Beitcher Residence integrates green technologies including direct gain passive solar heating in the form of Trombe walls made of 8 CMU block walls and earth berms. W3 Architects also incorporated the latest state of the art solar technologies including an active solar thermal water heating system that heats the domestic hot water, in-floor radiant heating, the pool, and the spa.