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Stack House — Mount Washington, California
Status: Proposal
Category: Private Residential
Size: 3,000 s.f.
Team: Chris Leong, Dominic Leong, Gabriel Burkett, Hannah Frossard, Yu-Hsiang Lin, Jessie Baxa
Stack House was designed as a compact modular home that maximizes outdoor living space and is passively cooled with a thermal chimney that doubles as a refuge during a wildfire.The central staircase functions both a the primary vertical circulation and as a thermal chimney increasing the natural ventilation through the different living spaces.The composition of the building mass and window openings negotiate tight zoning envelope constraints and the limitations of pre-fab construction. Leong Leong collaborated with a local developer in Los Angeles to design several modular homes in Mount Washington. The development thesis proposed building on exceptionally steep sites which would require extensive poured-in-place concrete foundations. The cost of this construction is offset by building custom pre-fab modular units.
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