The house is planned so that all rooms can have a cross drought if required, day and night, to obviate the need for air-conditioning. Rainwater on primary roofs and terraces is collected and stored in large cisterns under the pool terraces.The entrance and rear gardens have been carefully terraced and landscaped using hand cut local stone for the retaining walls to the terraces which are planted with old olive trees and scented wild flowers. Olive trees are the only “new” plants introduced to the site

Modern Residential Architecture called Openhouse by XTEN Architecture is nestled on a steep slope in the Hollywood Hills with the iconic Sunset Boulevard at its feet. Modern Residential Architecture looks both integrated into the landscape and open to the city below. Retaining walls are configured to extend the first level living area into the [...]

This house is the one of two infill houses built on adjoining steep rear sections in Strathmore. A steel cruciform roof shape folds down to the south, providing privacy on a snug section. It also folds down to the east and west to enable a half level entry to be slipped in to the east [...]

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The Taft residence, on a six-and-a-half-acre site overlooking the Ohio River, consolidated all of the previously discovered strategies. Instead of creating a composite [...]