Mandala Custom Homes sustainable, energy-efficient healthy home

A healthy home can be integral to sustain our minds, bodies, and souls – as it provides us with essential security, safety, and peace of mind.

No matter what’s happening in the world outside our doors.

With COVID-19 numbers on the rise across the province and beyond this fall, the second wave of the pandemic – combined with the distinct chill of winter in the air – has us hunkering down, unlike any autumn in recent memory.

More than ever, we rely on our homes to provide a place of vital safety and solace.

But what makes for a healthy home that properly provides everything we need within our “four walls” to ensure that we are safe? Well, to start, clean air, sustainable heat source, and reduced noise pollution, to name just a few.

Designed and built for health and well-being

Building a healthy home begins the design phase. It follows through to the infrastructure and construction phases to ensure that the integrity and sustainability of the home support health, safety, and well-being long-term. This is fundamental to the Mandala Custom Homes (MCH) process.

Smart, innovative, and intuitive in design, we integrate advanced efficiency in construction into beautiful, round, pre-fab homebuilding. It is our goal with every home we build to create a dwelling where you will feel the most comfortable and at ease – a protective and peaceful refuge from the chaos and stresses of the outside world.

As MCH founder, Lars Close maintains, “The value of home is forefront on people’s minds. We want to feel safe and nurtured by a healthy home — a protected environment.”

In that spirit – the importance of a nurturing home – here are 20 reasons to choose an MCH round home to promote a better sense of safety, health and well-being in your home for today, and for generations to come:

  1. The Mandala Custom Homes holistic approach. We design and build with holistic health and wellness as one of the foundational pillars of both our business and building models.
  2. Naturally safer than a typical home. Due to its innovative and faceted design and construction, an MCH healthy home can endure the most extreme conditions – heavy snow loads, hurricane-force winds, or earthquakes. An MCH home can also include fire-resistant insulation and cladding to help provide an even safer dwelling for you, your family, and your investment.
  3. Long-established principles of design merge with innovative and performance-based building technologies. MCH creates dwellings that nourish the soul as we implement the most cutting-edge technology solutions to provide sustainable, energy savings for the life of your healthy home. An MCH round home requires no exter­nal energy to cir­cu­late tem­per­a­ture and is designed to maximize the nat­ural ther­mal dynam­ics of open-at-the-top archi­tec­ture. As a result, there is less energy required to maintain a consistent and comfortable indoor temperature, regardless of the season.
  4. An HRV air exchange system. A Heat Recovery Ventilation System (HRV) is an indoor/outdoor air exchange system. It will keep indoor air fresh and moisture-free.
  5. Incorporating biophilia. Defined as a desire or tendency to commune with nature, it’s essentially, to bring the outside in. MCH round homes provide panoramic views and a sense of connection and relationship with nature. It’s a concept that fundamentally informs the entire MCH living experience.
  6. Surrounded by the warmth of wood. The beauty and comfort of a wood interior will embrace you in a sense of natural warmth and well-being that helps to promote a harmonious and healthy lifestyle.
  7. Integrating the sacred into everyday living. With each and every project, MCH is guided by a vision inspired by the harmony that exists within round spaces. From the company’s founding, the vision has been inspired by the harmony innate to the natural world and throughout human evolution.
  8. Peaceful. The round shape of an MCH home offers welcome sound-proofing from outdoor noise and ruckus. How does it work? Sound waves disperse as they wrap around the structure which helps to shield the inside from the noises outdoors.
  9. Sounds are softened indoors. The lovely curve of an MCH round home actually serves to soften sounds indoors. As a result, you enjoy a peaceful indoor environment that fosters relaxation, rest, rejuvenation, and reflection. Even better if you’re a music lover or like to entertain as the acoustics of a faceted round home offer sublime sound quality!
  10. Our unique and inclusive design process. Mandala Custom Homes has become known for our talented, sensitive, and inquisitive designers.  They provide thoughtful attention to your needs, wishes, and desires throughout the design process to ensure you have a home you’ll love. With careful consideration of your unique lifestyle, MCH designers work closely with you to ensure you will have a dwelling that supports everything you do in your home for years and generations to come.
  11. Passive solar design. MCH reins in the sun’s tremendous energy to heat and cool the homes we build.  An alternative, renewable – or green – energy, our method of solar design leverages a healthy, safe, and sustainable means of harvesting energy. Solar design is a high-performing alternative to the damaging and increasingly irreparable impacts of utilizing fossil fuels.
  12. Reduces waste. Prefabrication is the process that defines the MCH building methodology. Our innovative Off-Site Manufacture (OSM) system encourages an economical use of building products – everything is used and nothing goes to waste.  The results include minimal materials waste, less surrounding environmental intrusion at the building site and much easier cleanup.
  13. The intuitiveness of round. A circle represents an interconnection – wholeness, totality, original perfection, the infinite, the Self, eternity, timelessness, all cyclic movement, all living things. A simple shape, the circle, is much more efficient and sustainable than a more complex one – a rectangle, for instance. In fact, an MCH round home uses 15 to 20% less mate­r­ial to cre­ate a rec­tan­gu­lar design of the same square footage! As a result, a circular home takes up a smaller eco-footprint and costs less, without compromising space for living.
  14. Fast, factory, prefabricated, assembly. With the MCH prefabricated building system, there is minimal, if any, exposure to the elements compared to conventional site-built construction. Exposure to outdoor conditions can take its toll on building materials and negatively impact the final construction – mildew, mould, popped screws and nails, warped wood, and an increased probability the building will have squeaky floors.
  15. Consciousness – ENERGY STAR certified. MCH has the distinction of having built British Columbia’s first ENERGY STAR certified home. Our ENERGY STAR certification ensures you will live comfortably no matter the season, but it will also save you thousands of kilowatt-hours of electricity. MCH creates a building envelope that provides a moderate, and always comfortable, indoor environment as it significantly reduces emissions. Every MCH home we create provides quality, performance, and savings. Not to mention predictable and consistent energy-efficiency for the life of your home.
  16. Green homebuilding. We are proud of how minimally MCH’s homes impact the surrounding environment.  We are committed to sustainability and energy-efficiency and know that panelized home construction is building methodology that is inherently green. MCH has achieved a variety of green building certifications, including the ICC 700 National Green Building Standard.
  17. Transparency. We don’t like surprises – particularly when it comes to one of the most significant investments we make in our lifetime. No stressful cost overruns. Unlike a site-built home, where cost overruns are a common stressor; at Mandala Custom Homes, you get a guaranteed price for your home package. The Mandala Custom Homes process, from the first consultation to the day you move into your new MCH round home, is open and transparent – intended to be as free of stress as possible.
  18. Minimize homebuilding stress. The psychology of building or renovating a home can be very complicated, in some cases destructive, with the potential to harm relationships as well as mental health. Given Lars’ extensive background in human psychology, he aimed to find a building solution that would be far less stressful to the homeowner. In answer, prefabrication became the founding principle upon which the entire MCH round home building business was borne. He identified that prefab home building could reduce building timelines and, as a result, reduce the stress and tension associated with it. An MCH home can be built very quickly – as quickly as three weeks!
  19. A round MCH home sustains unique and healing energy. An MCH round home provides wonderfully holistic design and technologies – combining a thoughtful and intelligent layout of space with the nat­ural move­ment of air and sound – to create and preserve an inspired, healing, and tranquil energy.
  20. The Mandala Custom Homes commitment to a uniquely high standard of service and quality. We want you to have the very best home possible – to enjoy for years to come or take advantage of the value it holds if you choose to sell it. The MCH design and planning service is backed by over 70 years of luxury home building expertise. We know you’ll love your new Mandala Custom Homes round home and will appreciate, for years and years to come, the enhanced comfort, safety, and holistic living experience that comes with it.

Wondering if a Mandala Custom Homes round home is right for you?

Speak with one of our experts to find out how building a Mandala Custom Homes round home is the best choice for the safety and health of you and your loved ones.