The high-performance home, indexed.
The makers, products, protocols, and real-world builds behind the best home environments — researched, curated, and cross-linked in one place.
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Every maker and builder behind the products, builds, and protocols on Compound — each one researched and written up in our own words. A working map of who actually builds these rooms.
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KLAFS
The German luxury sauna house — engineering where everyone else does carpentry.
Kaplan Thompson Architects
One of the few residential practices that publishes embodied carbon per project.
Design for Leisure
Hydrothermal spas that survive decades of heat and water — not just the render.
Zehnder
Whole-house fresh air, engineered like infrastructure.
Positive Energy
MEP engineers who treat a house as the air it contains, not the surfaces around it.
Effe
Italian design applied to the sauna and the hammam.
Bensonwood
Fifty years of prefabricated enclosure, with the prices published.
Harvia
The Finnish heater inside everyone else's sauna.
Lutron
The lighting control standard, from one dimmer to the whole house.
Eight Sleep
The bed that handles temperature so you stop thinking about it.
Building Performance Cooperative
A worker-owned builder that warranties the temperature in every room.
Technogym
The Italian equipment brand luxury hotels converged on.
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