Vista Place
This design by fAS is a great example of how our systems can help speed up the construction process and save money.
The house is actually a 2,000-square-foot addition to an existing 800-square-foot original walk street beach cottage in Venice, California.
The architects and home-owners, inspired by the beauty of the galvanized steel used in the Blue Sky Frame, decided to expose many of the building materials on the inside of the structure. This will give the house a very unique and open feel.
The design also does not have many lateral walls, which would traditionally be required in a wood construction house. This particular design could only be rendered in either the Blue Sky Frame or structural steel. The Blue Sky Frame uses 50% by weight less materials and goes up much faster than a strutural steel system, which is very important to both the home-owners and their neighbors.
The design will also use the Blue Sky Wall in a curtain wall application. This will ensure an air-tight building envelope and great thermal performance for the house. This also is highly important to the environmentally conciseness home-owners.
The project will go into plan-check and construction in the summer of 2012.
