This house was designed by Ras-a located in Redondo Beach, a town of greater Los Angeles area beaches. This post-war adalha small home renovation, due to budget limitations and the environment, recycling the original house as much as possible. Some interior walls where deleted or moved, allowing room, kitchen and dining room into one fluid space.
A fourteen-foot wide sliding glass door pocket of the site, extending out into space and transformed the backyard swimming pool. Outdoor living area is the focal point of the new design, while making a simple measure of the broader socially inferior. A bedroom, bathroom, and one car garage is the room that keeps its original location. The use of clerestory windows on the south elevation prevents a busy street scene, while still carrying winds and framing the tops of palm trees nearby.
The north elevation, which faces the back yard and pool, has floor to ceiling windows providing the interior with an abundance of diffused natural light. High solar reflective roofing, light colored cement board siding, and a well insulated building envelope add to the passive solar design. This along with the use of high efficiency ceiling fans, eliminates the need for A/C. A clean burning modern stove reduces heating loads during the colder months. Other sustainable building materials and methods used include a tankless water heater, FSC certified cedar, low V.O.C. paints, bamboo flooring, and xeriscape yards.
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