Robert L. Peters: Solace House
Robert L. Peters tells us about Solace House, the low energy, passive solar home that he designed and built over thirty years ago. His story is also about living peaceably and sustainably on a stressed planet that seems fixated on fossil fuels. “What if we can embrace the sun? And move from being consumers to conservers?”
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ABOUT Robert L. Peters
“Robert L. Peters is a designer and principal of ‘Circle’, a design consultancy he co-founded in 1976 in Winnipeg, Canada.
In addition to practice, he’s been actively involved in design education, writing, speaking, advocacy, and professional development for most of his career, including leadership roles within the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC), and the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda).
He was raised and schooled in Germany, Switzerland, and England, and has had the opportunity of living, working, or traveling in more than 50 countries. For the past 25-plus years he has lived in a low-energy, passive solar house that he designed and built in the woods of Eastern Manitoba (no furnace, but he does have a climbing wall).
When he’s not busy with design, he enjoys spending time in nature, climbing (crags, mountains), and other human-powered outdoor activities. He considers himself a generalist, getting just as excited about building a bird-house as when he’s providing strategic counsel to a client.
He’s (mostly) peaceable (following in the footsteps of his pacifist father and ten generations before him) but he does concede he does go off on rants from time to time.”
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