The greenest house on the block

The Rose House is the smallest project Clark Brockman has worked on, and he also considers it the most exciting. The unassuming little house on Northeast Ainsworth Street is just 800 square feet, but it incorporates technologies that thrill architects like Brockman. From its staggered-stud frame to its solar water heating system, the Rose House is the first home in Portland to create more electricity than it uses.

Brockman hopes that the Rose House will serve as a laboratory experiment, a demonstration piece and, most important, a regular house that builders will want to replicate and people will want to live in.