ARCHITECT-DESIGNED HOUSE PLANS FOR HOMES THAT LIVE WELL.
Healthy, efficient homes made more accessible.
Your home should be beautiful, comfortable, durable, and healthy.
Root Down House Plan Co. creates thoughtfully designed house plans that combine architectural quality with high-performance building strategies, healthy materials, and natural building options—including hemp-lime.
Better design. Better materials. Better homes.
MORE THAN A FLOOR PLAN.
Root Down plans bring together thoughtful architecture and practical building guidance to help you build a home that performs as beautifully as it looks.
EFFICIENT DESIGN
Smart layouts that make the most of every square foot.
HEALTHY MATERIALS
Thoughtful materials and assemblies designed with indoor air quality and moisture management in mind.
HIGH PERFORMANCE
Durable, energy-efficient assemblies designed for comfort and long-term performance.
NATURAL BUILDING
Breathable, low-toxicity building options, including hemp-lime / hempcrete construction.
A BETTER WAY TO BUILD.
Every Root Down plan includes more than drawings. Along with the architectural plan set, you'll receive building assemblies, material guidance, healthy-home resources, and practical information to help you make informed decisions about how your home is built.
INCLUDED WITH EVERY PLAN
Complete house plan set
High-performance wall, roof, and floor assemblies
Breathable building options
Healthy-home material guidance
Healthy Homes E-Catalog
BUILT FROM EXPERIENCE.
Root Down grows from nearly two decades of architectural work focused on sustainable, healthy, and high-performance buildings—including experience with hemp-lime, rammed earth, and advanced conventional assemblies.
We believe better architecture doesn't have to mean bigger, more complicated, or more expensive.
It simply means designing better.
START WITH A BETTER PLAN.
BUILD DIFFERENT.
THE HEMPSTEAD COLLECTION
For those ready to explore hemp-lime / hempcrete, select Root Down plans are available with our Hempstead building system.
Hemp-lime wall assemblies, construction details, material resources, and educational guidance help you explore one of the most promising natural building systems available today.
““We do not believe we could have built our home, with all of our principles intact, AND within our budget, had we not used a Root Down House Plan.””
RDHPco has served 46 clients across 9 different states
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RDHPco has served 46 clients across 9 different states 〰️
Building a Better Future
Root Down House Plan Co. is part of a larger effort to make healthy, climate-smart housing more accessible.
25% of all sales are donated to the Root Down Building Collective, supporting its mission to Advance Climate-Smart and Equitable Housing.