Outdoor spaces are important to the design, providing a dining terrace and fountain for the owners. A lap pool and usable rooftop complete the home. It cannot be a package. It cannot be an artificial setting. It's about creating a domain.
Any house can be architecture if that house has a sensitivity.
Architecture begins with a love of things that surround you and wrap you. The incorporation of nature and doubling up on the room's purposes will help us build smaller but more useful homes in the next century, he believes. Outdoor spaces play an important role in his design. Flexible, multi-purpose rooms and interiors that open to outdoor rooms increase the usability of the space. This active family's home has a large kitchen and dining room that is used every night, exercise and music room and bedrooms with computer stations and multiple phone jacks for communication equipment.