This 25th Street Residence was designed by Shimizu + Coggeshall Architects, and Located in Santa Monica, California, United States. The street elevation scale was preserved while the entry and site were designed to promote neighborhood interaction on a corner in a highly walkable area. Small unused spaces were reconfigured by expanding them for a multiplicity of programs. Connections with the exterior were set up where every space has a unique relationship to the outside; sometimes framing a view, sometimes blurring the boundary between inside and out. Strategies to reduce demand include improved daylighting, 90% high efficacy lighting, and relocating openings. Additional sustainable issues for this project combined passive and active technologies: radiators fed by a high efficiency boiler, solar water heating, improved existing envelope, greater water efficiency, rainwater harvesting, phase changing drywall, and photovoltaics. Simultaneously, there was a material agenda that not only contrasted new from old but re-used materials on site: beams became benches and counters became fountains. Salvaged walnut slabs became a counter and framing harvested from a local demolished factory became the living room floor. The result is a high-performing home that has been completely transformed while respecting the layered history of the house.
Photography by Joshua White
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