Box Factory
Box Factory Zero Energy Resilience Hub by Hafsa Burt - Hb+a Architects is a winner of the 2026 Silver A' Design Award in Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design.
Box Factory is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs.
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This Zero Energy, low carbon project has operational data that confirms its actual performance. It is an all electric building that relies on onsite solar to meet its energy needs, with heat pumps providing heating and cooling. Careful siting and form work as hard as the systems, with the building oriented to local wind patterns and sun angles. Box Factory integrates climate resilience, innovation, and community impact through thoughtful design. During the 2022 Electra Fire, which burned 4,500 acres in Amador County, the project proved itself resilient and climate ready.
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Box Factory by Hafsa Burt - Hb+a Architects
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Box Factory Zero Energy Resilience Hub
Box Factory is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Box Factory is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Box Factory is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.
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Hafsa Burt - Hb+a Architects
Hafsa's long-term advocacy and innovation-focused career translates practice into environmental policy and education to advance the profession of architecture as a catalyst for ecological resilience. Hafsa has spent the majority of her career integrating environmental best practices into projects ranging from small tenant improvements to major infrastructure and community hubs. Her leadership has resulted in hundreds of high-performance buildings with robust systems for conservation, waste diversion, and healthy indoor environments across diverse sectors, including retail, institutional and transit. Hafsa’s projects demonstrate a holistic approach and long-term community benefit. She exemplifies a “just enough” design philosophy, focusing on thoughtful sufficiency to minimize excess while enhancing beauty and utility. Hafsa is a recognized leader in climate-responsive design, inspiring her peers to view sustainability as a foundation for design to create meaningful and enduring impact in the architectural profession. Hafsa’s projects are often used as case studies for advocacy for new code measures.
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