The Detroit Showcase Home, a two-story house at dusk

The Detroit
Showcase Home

A net-zero home with a tech stack no other home in the country has. Built on a Detroit infill lot, open to the world.

Fuller Homesdesign and engineering
Keylight DevelopmentDetroit builder of record
Mans Lumber & Millworkframing and materials supply
Housing Innovation Alliancenational showcase

Built tight.
Net-zero.
Next-level.

Expensive custom homes may have advanced systems, but they operate independently. Fuller is different: every major system runs through a single intelligence layer, tuned for energy, cost efficiency and the health of the home.

The goal: bring intelligent, net-zero living to the price point of modern new construction.

Aerial view of the Detroit Showcase Home showing rooftop solar and the wood front porch

One brain.
Every system.

It learns

The Home OS optimizes energy, comfort, and air quality in real time.

It updates

Over-the-air software updates. New features after move-in, no renovation.

It protects

Predictive maintenance and clean-air monitoring guard the health of the home.

Tap a system to see what it does.

Solar array

Solar panels on the roof generate the home's electricity.

Battery backup

Stores the solar power you make for evenings and cloudy days, and keeps the essentials running when the grid goes down.

Geothermal loop

Pipes buried in the yard tap the ground's steady temperature to heat the home in winter and cool it in summer, using far less energy than a furnace or standard air conditioner.

Fresh-air system

A tightly sealed home needs to breathe. This system brings in filtered outdoor air and sends stale air out, recovering the heat or cool on the way so you aren't paying to condition it twice.

Heat-pump hot water

Makes hot water by moving heat from the air instead of burning gas, using a fraction of the energy of a standard tank.

Air-quality monitoring

Sensors track carbon dioxide, humidity and fine particles, and tell the home when to bring in more fresh air.

EV charging

A ready-to-use charger for an electric car, set up so it can run on the power the roof makes.

Greywater reuse

Water from showers and the washer is cleaned on site and reused to flush toilets, cutting the home's water use.

Low-voltage lighting

LED lighting that runs on safe, low-voltage power. Simpler wiring, less wasted energy, and lights that tie into the home's controls.

Emergency water shutoff

Watches the home's water flow and shuts off the main automatically if it spots a leak, before it turns into a flooded basement.

Open below, private above.

2stories
1,603sq ft
2 / 2.5bedrooms / baths
38'×16'footprint

Includes finished basement.

Ground floor plan of the 3838-2S

Great room, dining, kitchen, mudroom, half bath, front and rear porches

Second floor plan of the 3838-2S

Two bedrooms, two full baths, laundry


The builder
that never builds.

Fuller is not a homebuilder. It is the design, engineering, and fulfillment platform beneath homebuilding, solving the hard parts once so builders can deliver Fuller homes locally.

Think of the Sears kit home. Sears perfected the design and shipped the kit; local crews built them by the thousands. Fuller applies the same idea to modern homebuilding: perfect the system once, then let local builders deliver it.
Fuller

The platform

Configurable home designs, structural and MEP engineering, permit-ready documents, and the systems to deliver them consistently.

The builder network

Local fulfillment

Vetted builders deliver Fuller homes in their own markets, using local labor and expertise. Fuller removes the back office overhead.

The homeowner

One seamless home

Choose a Fuller home, configure it to your needs, and receive one coordinated home experience, regardless of who builds it.

Six modules. A whole catalog.

Every diagram is drawn to relative length.

Two-story

side view
48 / 48
38 / 48
38 / 38
48 / 38

One-story

top down
38 + 48
48 + 22 + garage
38 + 22

Townhomes

front view
Stacked units, shared walls

Duplex

top down
48 + 48
38 + 38
48 + 38

Designs built to scale.

Fuller pre-engineers a kit of modules that combine into homes for many lot sizes and applications: single-family homes, side-by-side ranches and stacked two-stories, and small multiplex buildings.

Fuller two-story homes side by side Fuller two-story home in black and natural tones Fuller triplex row with covered porches Fuller single-story cottage with covered entry

Mass production without mass sameness. The underlying system stays consistent while the home can respond to different lots, layouts, and markets.

Product partners.

Build updates.

October 2026

Permits issued. We break ground on Townsend Street in Detroit's Islandview neighborhood the week of October 19.

Join in the story.

Once complete, the home stays open for press coverage and national tours to provide a working example of attainable, intelligent infill that other cities and developers can see, touch, and take home.

Tour it

City leaders, industry groups, and neighbors walk the home, hosted by the Housing Innovation Alliance.

Cover it

Press access to the home, the technology, and the Detroit story behind it.

Build on it

Developers and partners: bring a lot, a product, or capital to the next one.

Request access

Tours, press, and partnership conversations start here.