18/10/2024
Sedona Red Brick House located in Arizona, USA by
When creating the Sedona Red Brick House (SRBH) project, we were primarily guided by the customer's task, as well as the initial design data, including: topographic survey of the site, photo / video analysis of the territory. We also got acquainted with the history of the city of Sedona and West Sedona, carefully studied the physical and geographical features in terms of temperature differences (minimum in winter and maximum in summer), air humidity, wind strength and direction, etc.
Based on the topographic survey of the site, the elevation difference is between 4370 - 4352, and is 18 feet. At the same time, the customer prefers a one-story house, with a minimum number of steps in the middle of the house, and flat or single-pitched roofs. Also, The City building department provides a height limit of 22 feet, but can reach 27 feet when using darker colors on the facade. (The City building department has a height restriction of 22 feet, but can go up to 27 feet with massing variations and by using darker colors on the exterior.)
So, we managed to design a one-story house on one level, taking into account the planning restrictions. At the same time, the clean floor in the house is at the 4357 mark, the entrance to the garage is designed with a slope of 1:10, which makes it inclusive. Instead, we have a retaining wall up to 9 feet 6 inches high at the highest point along the site boundary to the North and West. This solution allows you to get a back yard shaded on one side by the house, with a retaining wall on the other, which in our opinion is very comfortable considering the summer heat in Arizona.
Volumetric and spatial solutions provide for the maximum integration of the architecture of the house into the environment, that is why we wanted the house to be faced with red brick as close as possible in tone to the surrounding mountains, and the green inserts on the main facade and on the terrace were as close as possible to the existing green in tone plantations