Handyman Insurance, Pushing the Limits of Passive Sustainability
Architects often use their own homes as laboratories of expression and functionality. With the 4,500-square-foot infill residence Yudell and MRY architectural colorist Tina Beebe recently completed in Santa Monica, the husband and wife created an exemplar to break through client misconception.
While the new house sports carefully integrated equipment—namely rooftop evacuated solar tubes furnishing all domestic hot water, as well as photovoltaics that produce more electricity than consumed—its creators are decidedly “not techies,” Yudell notes. In turn, Beebe and Yudell had decided to experiment at the outer edges of passive sustainability. As Yudell explains, “We would push the relationship between architecture and natural forces, taking shaping, shading, and air movement farther than we had before.”