9 Feb 2010
This Modern Contemporary home designed by Johannsen Architects. The challenge for this project is to create a contemporary family home design which is relatively low and strict maintenance of economic, irregular site. The solution is simple design that expands the long, contracts, and curve according to the interior design and built form that responds to the changing shape of the site. With a protected central courtyard, shaded terrace and a sunny swimming pool loggia, outer space is open to various parts of the site and park. Passive heating and cooling and natural ventilation to help reduce the use of A / C, and solar pool heaters and 24,000 L rain water tanks have been integrated into the house this large family.
Modern Contemporary Home is Responsive to the Changing shape of the Site
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Tags: , contemporary living, curve, interior design, natural ventilation, pool terrace, rain water tanks, strict maintenance, townhouses
8 Jan 2010
This house renovation project 229 Douglass location in San Francisco by Group 41 Architecture and builder Ewen Uttig , main house 2,067 square feet, barn 2,036 square feet and lot size 3,125 square feet. The real deal clad in reclaimed wood planks sourced from old agricultural buildings, the replace-ment barn features the same roof gables, window patterns, and second-story bump-out as the original. Knit pearl a pretty front hall reintegrates the upper and lower floors of the main house, which had been separated. Hip replacement the home interior of the new barn improves on the past with space-saving built-ins and operable skylights for natural ventilation. The color purple at paint color is one of the few things that’s not regulated in San Francisco. A regal jewel tone offsets the home’s crisp trim and Edwardian filigree.
Douglas's Barn House single family dwelling
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Tags: , agricultural buildings, board and batten, board and batten siding, color purple, eureka valley, exact style, home guide, home renovation, natural ventilation, operable skylights, paint color, reclaimed wood, single family dwelling, sliding doors, wide plank flooring, wood planks
