Passive cooling strategies were incorporated, such as opposing clerestory windows, solar shading, a ventilation system that draws heat from the lower floors, and a vegetative roof that offsets heat gain.
Designed to take full advantage of scenic beach views, this 3,500-square-foot residence on Miramar Beach in Montecito, California, features south-facing walls of glass that blur the line between indoors and out.
An 80-foot-long etched glass wall with vertical striations extends along a central corridor, dividing the open areas from the more contained office spaces.
AB Design Studio transformed a warehouse into the headquarters of Forms + Surfaces in Carpinteria, California.
MOXI is the first LEED Gold-certified museum in Santa Barbara.
Envisioned as a “modern-day, inhabitable sand castle,” MOXI sports a playful and curvaceous appearance with a Spanish-style exterior.
Shaded by canopy trees, the expanded patio offers outdoor dining and creates curb appeal for the restaurant’s corner location.
Formerly an aging dive bar, this acclaimed restaurant in Montecito, California, was transformed by AB Design Studio into an inviting and high-end eatery with a 20-foot-long custom accordion-style door system.
The ground floor features an open floor plan with combined living spaces and a centrally placed kitchen.
Recently featured in the pages of Dwell Magazine, this contemporary home is built from five reclaimed shipping containers and is set into a lush Santa Barbara hillside.
Josh Blumer.
For Bret and Dani Stone’s house in Santa Barbara, California, Barber Builders erected a concrete-and-steel ground level capable of supporting a second story made mostly of shipping containers. While the project as a whole took 19 months, the containers were craned into place in a single day in 2016.
The patio furniture is from CB2.
For the open-plan first floor, interior designer Sarah McFadden paired a round Mexican olive wood table by Taracea with Nuvola chairs covered in ash gray leather. A half-sized container, painted in Smoke Embers by Benjamin Moore, serves as a pantry/scullery.
The site-built lower level, erected by Barber Builders, connects to the terrace via corner glass pocket doors.
The bedrooms and bathrooms are housed within the 40-by-8-foot boxes, separated by a skylit corridor.
A 14 Series pendant by Omer Arbel for Bocci hangs in the stairwell. The desk at the window was designed by the architects.
On the other side of the entry gate, the containers’ raw corrugated shells are exposed and topped with a gravel-ballasted roof that juts past the envelope to limit solar gain.