A Room With a View

Just as in real estate, good design for a new home is all about “location, location, location.”  In this case, we don’t mean what neighborhood you’re in, but rather how best to situate a home to take the most advantage of views, topography, and available land area.  For this hillside residence, a view “rosetta” (a planning tool to identify directions to all key viewpoints, above) and view panorama modeling studies (below) help guide space planning and building orientation toward key views, and site sections (far below) facilitate the consideration of ways to engage the hillside terrain for most optimal use of the site.