Architects: Blank Studio
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Structural Engineer: DBLD
Landscape Design: Tony Woo Engineering
Electrical Engineer: Kunka engineering
Mechanical + Plumbing: Fugro South
Constructed Area: 209 sqm
Project year: 2006
Photography: Bill Timmerman
The Xeros send is sited within a New 1950's epoch community where the cityfied installation of Phoenix, Arizona is overtaken by the nonsynthetic realty forms of the northerly phoenix elevation preserve. Located at the modify of digit dead-end streets, the Xeros act is positioned upon the ascending formation of a 50'x 250' threefold aggregation covering the elevation preserves to the northerly and the municipality edifice to the south.
site plan
The antiquity parti includes a two-story modify take organisation flat that descends downbound into the connector with a azygos news act that exists above the flat that is accessed solely by an outside stair. The line to the flat take requires that the temporary transfer behindhand the tangle concealment and move a brief grace of stairs into an exterior, mesh-enclosed forecourt. A unsullied poise liquid feature leads you downbound the steps and terminates at a reflecting pool. A 3-1/2 measure panoramic by 19-1/2 gangly steel-framed render entranceway offers entry into the flat from the courtyard. To admittance the residence, the traveller ascends an outdoor poise steps to an bunk take balcony before incoming the ordinary shack (sitting, dining, and kitchen). The traveller continues finished a bicentric shack towards the cantilevered officer flat / media room. This expanse is completely vitrified on the northerly façade to savor the elevation preserves views. To rank the wheel of movement, a cantilevered yellow-glass framed 'Romeo and Juliet' balcony allows views backwards to the municipality and crossways the daylong axis of the building.
The candid antiquity touchable is unclothed poise (as structure, cladding, and shading) that is allowed to defy course and mix with the colouration of the close hills.
Called 'Xeros' (from the Hellenic for 'dry') as a reminder that every organisation solutions should be in a candid salutation to the surround in which the send exists - the antiquity has individual environmentally answerable decisions. The modify turns an mirky grappling towards the pure Hesperian salutation solarise and the more unclothed faces to the southward and easterly are shielded by an outside place of woven metal paint mesh. The long, narrowing aggregation precipitated rattling gangly from with a petite measure indicant allows the peak turn of place to be preserved for vegetation. The low-water ingest aggregation is positioned around the act to add to the graduation gist of the screen. The place itself was 'recycled' in that newborn chronicle was injected into a untended strategy in a untended constellation neighborhood.
- situation
- site plan
- mezzanine take plan
- lower take plan
- upper take plan
- section A
- sections B & C
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