GEOSHIP @ TBE
announce that I’ve officially been accepted as a **Geoship Ambassador**! 🙌
This is a huge opportunity to help co-create a future where **affordable, healthy housing** and **regenerative communities** allow humanity to thrive with food, water, and energy in harmony with nature. 🌍💚
I’ll be sharing more about the incredible innovations in **bioceramic homes** and **climate resilience**, and how we are co-creating a growing movement toward **regenerative living**! Let’s reimagine the way we live—together with the Earth! 🌱
Stay tuned for updates, and feel free to reach out if you’re curious about joining this movement! **Live outside the box.** Let’s build a better world, one dome at a time. 🏡✨ Check out [www.geoship.is](https://www.geoship.is/)
1890 LAWNDALE RD
Rebuild after 2017 fires of a 4br, 3.5ba, 4302 GSF single family residence with detached 940 GSF garage.
LA FIRES
We are greatly saddened by the loss of life and property in LA!
COMPRESSED EARTH+MULTIFAMILY
TBE Architecture is working with Brian Jaffee of the California Cottage Company and Verdant Structural Engineers to prototype a multifamily development template utilizing Senate Bill 9 (SB9) – The California Home Act and Senate Bill 8 (SB8) – the Housing Crisis Act of 2019 to develop projects on existing lots that include a duplex with 2 ADUs that then can be eligible for a lot split. Another notable innovation that Brian is bringing to the project is Compressed Earth Blocks (CEBs). Brian manufactures the blocks locally at the companies’ facility in Rohnert Park.
THORNSBERRY RD. ADU + ART STUDIO
This 2BD/2BA 1200 SF ADU is located in a beautiful little valley over looking vineyards, east of downtown Sonoma. Located below the ADU is a 1200 SF Art Studio with half bath. Construction is scheduled for late 2023 or early 2024.
LAWNDALE RESIDENCE, ADU & SHOP
The structure, exterior finishes and insulation are all of non-combustible materials. Expansive openings bring in the views and fresh air while wrap around canopies control heat gain.
6052 LICHAU RD
Since this house’s family is a close one, the kids’ bedrooms are multi-purpose, one is the movie watching room as well, and the other is the library and community office. By making spaces that are usually single purpose into multipurpose spaces, a relatively compact house can provide more functions and bring people into each other’s lives in the process.
Mom’s room, however, is uniquely hers and unique single purpose. It has a bathroom suite that is designed to have all the delightful fixtures of a spa, and all the elegance too, but within a compact area. A space of purity and purpose is created for each activity, so that the space of showering is truly only for showering – there are no toothbrushes, no toilet paper, just stone, glass, hot water, towels, and so much steam you can’t see your hand in front of you. A unique feature the client asked for was a fully retractable skylight above her bed for stargazing in comfort, you got it.
The building is stretched along the hillside so that each floor can have large openings to face the valley view. This narrow footprint provides opportunity for effective cross ventilation and very effective floor plans that minimize circulation spaces, and by stepping each floor backwards we honor the hill and create terraces in the process. For privacy, and to elevate the landscape to the level of the building, vertical gardens surround the decks and connect the house to the land it emerges from.
3729 DEAUVILLE PL – FIRE REBUILD
Our project brief was to create a new 4 bedroom home to replace a home destroyed in the 2017 wildfires. We chose to position the new home squarely on the surviving segment of old foundation, respecting footprint of the previous house.
The main living space offers a restrained, modern space that can flow in and out of doors, favoring a dramatic view across the valley to the west. The master suite also provides direct access to the rear deck, and supporting spaces are arrayed on the lower floor.
1321 CASHEW RD. – FIRE REBUILD
1321 Cashew Rd. was one of TBE’s first fire-rebuild projects after the 2017 fires. As such, only minor changes to the footprint (400 SF were added to create a more generous main suite) were made.