Solar Inspiration
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In Scarpa and Brook' own house, they’ve mounted luminous solar panels in a rusted-steel-beam grid to form a modernist canopy that frames the façade. This imaginative “solar umbrella” hides the household power plant in plain sight, part of an artful composition that includes a hanging screen tied with bristles of industrial brooms.Photo by: Marvin Rand, Darcy Hemley -
The living room flows effortlessly out to the courtyard. This unity is underscored by the living room’s blue shag rug from the Shag Rug Company.Photo by: Marvin Rand, Darcy Hemley -
Angela Brooks and son Calder revel in the benefits of free solar energy, cheerfully opening the living room’s big glass doors when it’s time to play.Photo by: Marvin Rand, Darcy Hemley -
A built-in sofa with Design Tex upholstery marks the boundary between the two-level addition and the bungalow. Leading up to the master bedroom, a perforated metal staircase, lit from above, casts a Sigmar Polke–like shadow grid on the concrete floor.Photo by: Marvin Rand, Darcy Hemley -
The fluted cherry front door, designed by Scarpa, launches a rippling motif that reappears in furniture and on walls. The Harry Bertoia Bird chair is from Knoll.Photo by: Marvin Rand, Darcy Hemley -
In the dining/kitchen area there are cabinets and floors made of oriented strand board (OSB) and a cherry dining table fabricated by Joe Cooper to the architects’ design.Photo by: Marvin Rand, Darcy Hemley -
A steel-beam canopy with solar panels shades the house and provides electricity.Photo by: Marvin Rand, Darcy Hemley -
Brooks and Scarpa took an unlovable old bungalow that occupied a deep through lot, with streets front and rear, and transformed it into their dream home. The ingenious new solar-framed façade is seen here.Photo by: Marvin Rand, Darcy Hemley
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