Haymarket

A Collaboration · In Progress

A modern home, coming together.

A current Todd Webb and Steve Howard collaboration in Haymarket, Virginia — clean shed rooflines, warm wood, stone, and dark metal set against the tree line. Architect-designed and builder-made, the same team carrying it from drawing to delivery.

The photos below follow the build as it happens — from foundation and framing to the sealed envelope and the exterior nearing completion. Professional photography to come.

The Build

A walk through the build.

Foundation day on site.

Aerial view of the Haymarket site — concrete foundations set into the cleared lot with a pond beyond — From the ground up — foundations set into the site, the pond beyond.

Haymarket slab prep — pink rigid foam insulation laid over a drained stone base inside the foundation walls — Below the slab — rigid foam insulation over a drained stone base.

Haymarket slab prep — radiant-floor tubing and rebar laid over a yellow Stego vapor barrier — In-floor radiant heat and rebar over a sealed Stego vapor barrier.

Haymarket high-performance slab ready to pour — Stego vapor barrier, rebar grid, and radiant tubing with the framed house behind — A high-performance slab in the making — vapor barrier, rebar, and radiant heat, ready to pour. Comfort built in below grade.

Haymarket under construction — heavy wood framing and steel beams under a blue sky — Structure rising — heavy framing and steel, openings framed to the view.

Interior of Haymarket during framing — exposed wood ceiling structure and full-height window openings — Inside the main volume — exposed structure and full-height openings.

Haymarket envelope — green ZIP System sheathing with large glass walls installed — The envelope takes shape — ZIP System sheathing and walls of glass.

Haymarket sheathed in green ZIP System with a standing-seam metal roof going on — Sheathed in ZIP, with the metal roof going on.

Haymarket garden elevation sheathed in green ZIP System, taped before cladding — Sheathed and sealed in ZIP System — taped tight before a single board of cladding goes on.

Haymarket cladding going on over the ZIP — dark board cladding installed on a rainscreen above the self-adhered Obdyke SA membrane, green ZIP still visible above — The cladding goes on over the rainscreen — board work hung above the self-adhered Obdyke SA and ZIP beneath.

Haymarket wrapped in dark cladding over a furred rainscreen, the ZIP and SA membrane sealed behind — A vented rainscreen gap behind every board — the way a wall is built to dry.

Haymarket nearing completion — the same garden elevation finished in stone, warm wood, and dark metal with landscaped stone steps — The same elevation, nearing completion — stone, warm wood, and dark metal, settled into the site.

Haymarket entry nearing completion — covered entry, stone, warm wood, and glass beneath a floating roof, with frameless glass garage doors — The entry, nearing completion — stone, warm wood, and glass beneath a floating roof.

Behind the Walls

What you'll never see is what makes it last.

The green wrapping these walls is ZIP System sheathing — a structural panel with a built-in water and air barrier, taped tight at every seam. On most homes, that's the whole weather story. On Haymarket, it's only the first layer.

Over the ZIP, we self-adhered Benjamin Obdyke HydroGap SA — a top-of-class drainable housewrap with a 120-day UV rating — then furred out a vented rainscreen before the siding went on. Two independent drainage planes and a ventilated cavity: any water that ever gets behind the cladding has somewhere to drain and a path to dry. A wall built to outlast its finish — not a typical ZIP job.

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Energy & Resilience

Powered by the sun. Backed for the storm.

Haymarket is topped with a complete Tesla Solar Roof and backed by five Tesla Powerwalls — the home makes its own power by day and carries its own load straight through an outage, with no generator in sight.

It's a whole-home energy system very few houses in the region have ever had: quiet, clean, and resilient by design. Photography of the roof and battery wall to come.

A modern home, coming together.

What you'll never see is what makes it last.

Powered by the sun. Backed for the storm.

More to come as it finishes.