Architecture, House Design, and Interior Design

Amazing Atherton Residence With Natural Ventilation


The amazing Atherton Residence was located on the peninsula south of San Francisco, this house sits on an internal suburban flag lot. Large sliding glass doors from the buildings open up towards the pond, providing an immediate connection with nature as well as a good dose of natural ventilation. The beautiful home with modern doors was built as four buildings – main house, study, pool house and garage – that ring the edge of the site and focus inward on the pond, garden and pool.


Large sliding glass doors open directly out to the pond and terrace. The roofs conceal photovoltaic and solar hot water panels. The house is heated with a radiant system in the stone floors, and despite the hot climate it is not air conditioned, but passively cooled with a combination of overhangs, shades, and operable windows.

Visit website Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects. Here


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Filed under: House Design,Sidebar Photoblog — Tags: , , — fopple @ 12:54 pm October 5, 2009

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