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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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5504 Evans Avenue
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Built for a client who desired privacy and a place to store his
vintage cars, this infill house energizes a neighborhood in the
flight path of the now-relocated commercial airport. This
three-story dissolved cub with interwoven levels permits views
of downtown Austin from its treetop living spaces. The owner
enters the house by driving under a large deck visor into the
carport and moves up into living and sleeping spaces on the
second and third levels; decks cantilevering from or nested
into the structure connect living spaces to the outdoors. Limited
by a modest construction budget, this house was a study in
achieving dramatic, vertically interconnected spaces using
common residential building technologies and standard,
affordable cabinets, fixtures, doors, windows, and trim.
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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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