Hardhat Tour: Panoramic Acres

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Join us for a tour led by Lori Kari, AIA Architect, and Brian Lynch, Contractor

This two-story 4,000 square foot home is perched on a 10-acre steep ridgeline with private panoramic views from the mountains behind San Marcos Pass to the north, down to Pt Mugu and across the coastline to UCSB and San Miguel Island to the west. The site has been constricted from the onset with only one very small building pad with a steep hillside behind requiring 12’ retaining walls and steep hillside away from the site in the front and side slopes requiring additional walls and regrading to meet the slope requirements.

The design merges contemporary visual building elements on the main and upper levels while blending the structure with the natural surroundings, just peaking out of the hillside, as experienced when approaching the house.

Features of the house include:

• 9’x6’ LED back-lit Onyx panel at the wall behind the 10 burner range.
• Media room with quite sophisticated acoustical elements built into the walls and ceilings
• Home automation & alarm system
• Concrete walled wine room with custom wine racks
• Radiant in-floor heating & heat pump split cooling systems.
• Expansive roof decks with custom “invisible” mesh railings which disappear to enhance the panoramic views.

Other features involve green building practices with:

• PV solar panel array to off-set the Edison grid,
• Large underground holding tank to house water runoff of the 1,900 square feet of lower roof deck areas for irrigation.
• The secondary advanced treatment system for the septic that also can be used for irrigation water at the end of the treatment cycle.

Comfortable walking shoes are recommended for the 800 foot ascend on the driveway. There are also other locations on the site that can be accessed up an additional dirt road, so that will be relatively dusty and a bit unstable

Parking is limited. Carpooling is encouraged. We may have a person available that can shuttle people up the 800-foot driveway from parking at the neighbor’s property below and along the first part of the driveway leading to their house.

Meet at the house which is 800 feet up the driveway, then to your right where the driveway ends. We will start the tour at the front patio of the house.

Waiver
If you are interested in attending and have not done so this year, please fill out this 2019 waiver and send to Tara Rizzi at tararizzi@aiasb.com or bring with you to the hard hat tour.