Suburban Home Green Retrofit | San Carlos, CA
The framework for this project was an existing two-story developer built home from the 1950's that was marked by compartmentalized rooms and dislocated levels. The new design fits within the existing footprint in the lower two levels at the front and adds a two-story addition to the rear. The result is an open four story home focused on circulation flow from the ground floor up through the new 4th level loft and into the hillside to the rear. Throughout the new plan visual corridors are opened within the space to bring in natural daylight and provide views to the valley below and the hillside to the rear.