Rachel Wagner

In 2005, architects Doug Zaun and Rachel Wagner joined forces to create Wagner Zaun Architecture, a Duluth, Minn., firm that focuses on residential and community projects with a specialization in energy efficiency, sustainability, and passive-solar design for cold climates.

Windows and Doors in Double-Stud Walls

In her "Energy-Smart Details" article in FHB #228, architect Rachel Wagner discussed double-stud wall construction. Here, she explains its trickiest part: the gap between the inner and outer walls that…
Double-stud walls

Double-stud walls are a low-tech way to create highly energy-efficient walls with common materials and familiar assemblies
Houses you can heat with a hair dryer

The cold weather in Urbana, lll., barely registered inside the superinsulated houses on display at the second-annual North American Passive House Conference hosted by the Passive House Institute (www.passivehouse.us) and…

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