2016
CROSSING WALL HOUSE
SANTA BARBARA, CA
Project designed by SAW principal Dustin Stephens while founding partner of MOA // Mobile Office Architects
The Crossing Wall House is sited where the Santa Ynez Mountains meet the Pacific Ocean, overlooking the City of Santa Barbara and Channel Islands. The property's steep grade necessitated careful site planning and guided the building form as it utilized two narrow existing terraces. The two differing orientations of the terraces are expressed by two geometric grids that come together in the homes central living space and open the home to southern views toward the ocean, islands, and lowlands. The primary living space acts as a indoor-outdoor pavilion, opening fully at the back to an entry courtyard and opening in front to deck and views beyond. The project received Santa Barbara County’s Innovative Building Program's highest tier designation for energy efficiency by utilizing passive solar, thermal mass, passive ventilation, and solar hot water strategies. The raw Corten steel and concrete exterior material palette was developed to create a building that ages with the landscape and respond to localized threats posed by wildfire and termites. MOA completed both design and build work for the project.
Residential: 2,050 SF
Awards & Publications: Houses by the Shore; Oscar Riera Ojeda & Byron Hawes / Seasons Magazine; Modern Marvel; Fall 2018 / Dwell Homes - Featured Project; 2017 / ArchDaily; June 2016
Design + Build: MOA
Project Management: Zoe Stevens
Structural Engineer: Peter Jarratt
Civil Engineer: Charlie Grant
Photography: Tyson Ellis & MOA
The Crossing Wall House is sited where the Santa Ynez Mountains meet the Pacific Ocean, overlooking the City of Santa Barbara and Channel Islands. The property's steep grade necessitated careful site planning and guided the building form as it utilized two narrow existing terraces. The two differing orientations of the terraces are expressed by two geometric grids that come together in the homes central living space and open the home to southern views toward the ocean, islands, and lowlands. The primary living space acts as a indoor-outdoor pavilion, opening fully at the back to an entry courtyard and opening in front to deck and views beyond. The project received Santa Barbara County’s Innovative Building Program's highest tier designation for energy efficiency by utilizing passive solar, thermal mass, passive ventilation, and solar hot water strategies. The raw Corten steel and concrete exterior material palette was developed to create a building that ages with the landscape and respond to localized threats posed by wildfire and termites. MOA completed both design and build work for the project.
Residential: 2,050 SF
Awards & Publications: Houses by the Shore; Oscar Riera Ojeda & Byron Hawes / Seasons Magazine; Modern Marvel; Fall 2018 / Dwell Homes - Featured Project; 2017 / ArchDaily; June 2016
Design + Build: MOA
Project Management: Zoe Stevens
Structural Engineer: Peter Jarratt
Civil Engineer: Charlie Grant
Photography: Tyson Ellis & MOA
