Palm Springs Residence / Sander Architects
Sander Architects have designed a residence for the historic Movie Colony of Palm Springs that can combat the site’s harsh environment. Facing the San Jacinto mountains, the house features a simple roof that opens to the home toward the surroundings. With temperatures in Palm Springs reaching over a stifling 120 degrees, the western exposure of the home ”has created an enormously difficult problem with solar exposure”. Sander’s design of a fifteen-foot horizontal cantilever reduces (to practically zero) the time when the setting summer sun’s rays will penetrate the interiors; however, the cantilever is angled in such a way to allow winter sun to ”more readily enter the house to warm it when the weather turns colder.”
More about the residence after the break.
The building shell, conceived to employ the techniques of desert-dwellers for thermal insulation, features a multi-layer systems of shells to protect against extreme temperatures. The residence’s first shell will be created off site using Sander Architects’ Hybrid House concept (see Sander’s IPAC as reported earlier on AD). A layer of structurally integrated panels (SIPs) will provide more insulation in addition to the micro-thin double reflective building wrap and white steel panels that deflect the sun’s rays from heat penetration. The composite R-Value of this assembly will be R-91 and with such good insulation, electric bills should be reduced to a fraction of the present costs to operate the home.
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ah yes, ordos #101
yikes… on so many levels.
Sorry, but do you mean by “so many levels?” The house has only two (2) levels: a first-floor for living and entertaining, and a sub-basement for garage and maintenance rooms. Palm Springs building code generally doesn’t allow for more than one story, except when a prior 2nd story has been grand-fathered, as it the case here.
cool dog though…
Wow. A master bedroom with two bathrooms, one for each individual. And two closets, again one each. What an happy couple that must be…
I’m wondering if its a shoe closet and a carlsberg closet…
Awful project.
“Awful project”? You are obviously not a fan of desert-modernism, have no knowledge of the LEED system for sustainable architecture, and have no clue as to the design challenges posed by the desert’s extreme heat and sun. Also, did you miss the fact that the house design has an overall R-value of 91? 91 is so energy-efficient it’s virtually unheard of. What’s the R-value of your own house?
doesn’t keep it from beeing not that good architecture!
look at the plans! architecture is neither only R-values nor only renderings!
and jstoddard1, whats the R-value of your house???
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and dear friend, you are aware that this a project; (psst the pictures are not real photographies), so let us wait and see how close they will get to your so cherished R-value!
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1) I have seen the plans of this house and it is a beautiful example of neo-desert modernist architecture.
2) R-values are the best indication of energy-efficiency, so a high R-value is very important — especially in the California desert where temps can reach 120F. In-efficient buildings with high electrical usage frequently put a real strain on the grid, often causing “brown-outs” in the Summer. These frequently result in heat-related deaths. You think this is funny? !!!
3) btw, my own house in the desert carries an R-value of 34, which is the highest I could get when I renovated 4 years ago.
Streamlined “neo-desert cool” — with an amazing R-value of 91! Precisely the type of design smart people in the desert should be building. Very impressive. Even the dogs look happy.
wow, the R-value really turns you on!
but please, stay away from the dogs
Cheap renders, unfortunate project. Dogs make great clients, though.
What is cheaper to the world? To feed those dogs or to feed a person? This is a bad film set for Star War -1.
“Cheap renders, unfortunate project?” Have you any idea of the vast tracts of ersatz, neo-Spanish, energy-intensive designs developers are building throughout the California desert? By comparison this project is a breath of fresh air. I’ve seen both the actual floor plans and renderings of this house and there is nothing cheap about the them. ARCH/DAILY simply failed to adequately reproduce them when publishing this article. But I do agree with you about the dogs.
How did we fail? Everything is included.
Its a nice design. It remind me to another house I have seen long time ago on Lake Sammamish, Wash from Seatle architect Robert G. Becker. It looks like a transparant tent with the same glassfront of this house. I don’t understand why some people find it awfull, for me it is example of the new style
Why is that
Yikes. I sure hope all that grass shown will be installed using artificial material. Otherwise, the amount of water wasted on that will completely offset any benefit in carbon footprint gained from the deep overhang in that desert heat. Palm Springs is HOT and DRY!!
The renders are really cheap. They look like the ones I used to do when I was 15!! About the design, I think it speaks for itself….not good
guys! guys!………..none of u are getting to stay in this house……the dogs look happy enough stayin thr…..stop makin fun of their kennel…house i mean…..the end user is happy…critics go trash some othr project……
so nice