Santa Fe, NM
2006
The North Tano Road house is a 3,211 square foot residence for an interior designer, an artist / technology entrepreneur, and their daughter. The linear building hunkers down being a part of the narrow topography, while twisting to locate the powerful valley and mountain views, provide for passive solar, and avoid the view of the distant, surrounding houses. Minimal and drought-tolerant plant life, and particular tones of the site: soil, plant life. Subtle use of light, mystery, part of the ground, cantilever, and reveal.
The interior environment of the house is in harmony with the exterior, creating a place to enter the outdoors. The house is for entertaining, a protected place. Cooking, gardening, yoga, and a quiet studio retreat are functional elements within the house. A recognition of water is important in this space - underground water cisterns, roof drain exposed. The materials within the house are to reflect a connection with nature or of a natural character: “a nearly white color with tints of gray, yellow, brown - like that of undyed fibers or yarn.”
A consistent palette of blackened steel, stainless steel, anodized aluminum, walnut, limestone, earth-toned colored concrete, sandblasted glass, accent painting, and fabric scrim is used for the interior of the residence, with a palette of cementitious stucco, stainless steel panels, sheet metal fascia, and aluminum storefront used for the exterior of the residence. Site features such as scored concrete walkways, concrete pavers, stucco walls, exposed concrete block walls, gravel planters, basecourse driveway, steel gates, steel edging, and blackened steel panels reinforce the natural characteristics of the house and site.
The interior environment of the house is in harmony with the exterior, creating a place to enter the outdoors. The house is for entertaining, a protected place. Cooking, gardening, yoga, and a quiet studio retreat are functional elements within the house. A recognition of water is important in this space - underground water cisterns, roof drain exposed. The materials within the house are to reflect a connection with nature or of a natural character: “a nearly white color with tints of gray, yellow, brown - like that of undyed fibers or yarn.”
A consistent palette of blackened steel, stainless steel, anodized aluminum, walnut, limestone, earth-toned colored concrete, sandblasted glass, accent painting, and fabric scrim is used for the interior of the residence, with a palette of cementitious stucco, stainless steel panels, sheet metal fascia, and aluminum storefront used for the exterior of the residence. Site features such as scored concrete walkways, concrete pavers, stucco walls, exposed concrete block walls, gravel planters, basecourse driveway, steel gates, steel edging, and blackened steel panels reinforce the natural characteristics of the house and site.
