The Emigration Canyon Passive Solar Home is a single family house and site designed according to COTE Top 10 and LEED principles. A sustainable, contemporary home for a working couple with two young children, the house captures sunlight and daily thermal winds, offers incredible Emigration Canyon views, preserves and restores natural vegetation on a difficult site, creates a healthy indoor environment and enjoys low operating costs. The home is designed to last a minimum 100 years with maximum flexibility throughout its useful life and can be adjusted to fit the life cycles of its occupants. The Emigration Canyon home is constructed with low maintenance, locally produced materials, recycled content when possible, low water use, low VOC's and allows for adaptation to and addition of future technologies. This house strives to be an example of "Sustainable Design Excellence".