THE GEAR

HEAT | Radiant Heating System

COOLING | Stack Effect

SOLAR | Net-Zero System

MATERIALS | Local + Recycled

LANDSCAPING | Xeriscaping

CLIENT

Marit and Alon desired a family-oriented, modestly-sized modern house for themselves and their three young children. Their essential design needs included: four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a guest room and powder room. They asked for a state-of-the-art alcove kitchen that strategically concealed appliances, workspace and storage. The kitchen connects with the outdoors through a custom slide-open window that allows for pass-through serving to an outside bar seating space. The outdoor play area for the kids connects to the main indoor living spaces through a multi-sliding door system. It was important to Marit and Alon that their new home have a spacious feel with definition and natural lighting throughout. Through a series of lifted level roof planes, TDA designed a pattern of daylighting that is brought indirectly through hidden light wells and clerestory windows. Placing these windows in just the right locations delivers soft all-day natural lighting source. Inside this home, you are rarely left feeling a need to turn on artificial lighting. There is a constant reminder to interact with the outdoors. The ten foot high by twenty four foot wide sliding panel of glass again encourages life both indoors and outdoors. The bedroom hallway has a large window opening to the southern exposure and back yard.

TDA is now in the design process for the New Swimming Pool / Patio and additional outdoor living area.

SITE

This home sits in a well-established neighborhood, located within walking distance to downtown shopping and dinning. It is sited in a similar location to original footprint of a torn down 1950’s ranch house. This sustainably-designed suburban home offers open and mostly large feeling yet modest living spaces. A level site and the height limitations, were the key elements for the one single-level home, extending the perimeter of the living space out over the landscape creates a new modernist aesthetic, one that is encouraging of nature in this neighborhood atmosphere.

ENVIRONMENT

The house is oriented South - South-West, with the bedroom wing on the north side of the site to allow the indoor and outdoor living areas to be located in the southwest exposure for warm, light-filled spaces. TDA selected simple materials for low long-term maintenance and budget, metal roof fascia, stucco walls in grey and white, synthetic wood decking and a flat TPO roof membrane.