We designed and built this custom home on a steep, challenging lot. By cantilevering on a steel structure, we projected the house towards the sweeping view. Low-maintenance materials include stucco walls and metal siding and roofing. Sustainably grown wood is used for trim and decking.
Corrugated metal siding covers this custom home we designed and built. Large, shaded south facing windows provide passive solar comfort. The house has radiant floors, active solar hot water and electric power, and great cross ventilation.
We designed this custom home and supervised construction by a local contractor. Native lava rock was used for flooring, and the concrete frame was designed to withstand hurricanes and earthquakes, and to project as close as possible to the ocean cliff and natural arch rock formation, a favorite pelican nesting site.
Designed as a family getaway, we built three yurts on platforms surrounding a solid kitchen and bath house. The interior features cabinets made from chestnut salvaged from an old shed on the site.
We designed and built this house, which was featured in Fine Homebuilding issue 98 and More Small Houses, 1998 The Taunton Press. The house has radiant floors and is partially passive solar.
This writer’s cabin we designed and built houses a sauna below and an observation deck on top
In this custom home we designed and built, clerestory windows admit light at various angles, tracking the sun. Kalwall insulated glazing panels are used as very well insulated windows and give a shoji-like feeling. We used oak tree trunks cleared from the site as columns inside and out, and concrete countertops.