YEN HOME
(LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA)

With views to the Pacific Ocean this home has three levels that wind down and around a light-giving landscaped core. Situated on the north slope of a hill viewed from Scenic Drive, south of the University of California in La Jolla, the roof is designed with integral solar water heated panels. This home is also designed with a long, curved, textured concrete wall on the carport side for maintenance, sound, privacy, and protection from misguided vehicles. The raised floors act as horizontal shear panels allowing the posts to cantilever through to the roof for resistance of seismic forces permitting 100% windows for views where other homes are obstructed mostly by walls. Laminated wood beams also serve as mullions for the windows around the landscape core, project up, over, and roll far outside, in a web of roof beams creating the feeling of outside being inside to the ends of various cantilevered roofs. Although in a moderate climate, the roof has been sprayed and shaped with four inches of urethane foam for insulation. The cabinets through-out are fine wood, custom to fit the circumstances and the walls are of saw-textured wood to reduce maintenance.