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The house that fights fires
Montecito Residence designed by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects' is a single-family home set in the fire-prone Toro Canyon.
The owners wanted a house that minimized its use of scarce natural resources and recognized the challenging environmental conditions of the area. The design solution was to create a house that could harvest the climatic conditions which make the site so dangerous - the sun and the wind: a house that functions as an umbrella to shield the house from the sun and allows naturally cool offshore breezes to move through the space. >>>
A ton of plywood, a willing patron and an innovative architecture professor have joined forces to create what arguably might be New York's most beautiful sidewalk.
Lower Manhattan architect Richard Garber, an assistant professor in the New... >>>
