Built as a retirement home, this house created a comfortable place for grandparents to live and entertain. The entry courtyard, dining room, living room and kitchen form a large continuous central space with more private areas on each side.

With no elevation changes, wide doors, and grab bars it allowed aging-in-place.

It also utilizes a variety of environmental strategies including daylighting the common spaces with deep eaves to allow sun in the winter and shade in the summer, in-slab radiant heat, rainwater catchment and solar hot water heating.

Built in collaboration with Buildsense/Studio B Architects