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JOHN BROWN is the editor of theslowhome.com and the founder of the Slow Home Movement. He is a registered architect, real estate broker and Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
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Studio Living For Los Angeles Documentary Filmmaker
Lofted Living Area
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Studio Entry
Exterior Elevation
View of Entry at Night
Exterior Details
Stair Detail
Interior Living - Image 1
Interior Living - Image 2
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A film studio cum garden room for a documentary filmmaker and his family.
The building's exterior responds to the scale and relationship to an established garden and an historic main residence. The interior addresses the programmatic need for compartmentalization, sound and light control on the one hand, and the desire for openness and visual connectivity on the other.
Our strategy highlights the readings of skin versus structure, envelope versus infill in such a way that interior spaces slip within the building envelop like drawers in a cabinet.
The plywood ceiling of the lower floor garden room reveals a light soffit along one edge and becomes the floor and wall of an office compartment above. A gabled ceiling bridges over office spaces separated only by cabinetry and glass. Ipe wood slates over the lower portions of the building evoke the playful voyeuristic pleasure associated with a garden lath house.
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We believe that our homes and neighborhoods should be healthy, vibrant places that uplift the spirit and gracefully fit our needs. We call for an end to poor construction, bad design, misleading marketing, unfair lending practices and environmental neglect in the housing industry. We acknowledge our collective responsibility to create CLOSE, SIMPLE, LIGHT places to live that leave a positive legacy for future generations.
provides design focused information that homeowners can use to improve the quality of how and where they live. It takes its name from the slow food movement which arose as a reaction to the processed food industry. The sprawl of cookie cutter housing that surrounds us is like fast food - standardized, homogenous, and wasteful. It contributes to a too fast life that is bad for us, our cities, and the environment. In the same way that slow food raises awareness of the food we eat and how these choices affect our lives, Slow Home empowers you to take more control of your home and improve the quality of how you live while reducing your environmental impact and futureproofing the long term investment value of your home.
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