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JOHN BROWN is the editor of theslowhome.com and the founder of the Slow Home Movement. He is a registered architect, real estate broker and Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
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Blurring the Urban/Suburban Lines
One of the Twin Peaks at Dusk
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Facade and Entry
Interior Space
Stair Landing
Upper Patio
Kitchen
Bathroom
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Two Single Family Residences
Photos: Viviane Vives, MJ Neal, AIA
Two tall, narrow structures next door to each other, these homes feature an assortment of bright colors and a broad palette of materials. Both homes bring the outdoors inside through ground-level screen porches and upper-level patios set within the site’s canopy of trees.
This urban-suburban hybrid offers 1,700-square-foot single-family dwellings for two infill lots adjacent to downtown. The main configuration of the houses maintains privacy, while the screened-in porches provide outdoor living and a relationship with the street. The large trees on site make the houses want to push upwards, the architects say, and platforms and decks offer distant views.
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We believe that our homes and neighborhoods should be healthy, vibrant places that uplift the spirit and gracefully fit our needs. We call for an end to poor construction, bad design, misleading marketing, unfair lending practices and environmental neglect in the housing industry. We acknowledge our collective responsibility to create CLOSE, SIMPLE, LIGHT places to live that leave a positive legacy for future generations.
provides design focused information that homeowners can use to improve the quality of how and where they live. It takes its name from the slow food movement which arose as a reaction to the processed food industry. The sprawl of cookie cutter housing that surrounds us is like fast food - standardized, homogenous, and wasteful. It contributes to a too fast life that is bad for us, our cities, and the environment. In the same way that slow food raises awareness of the food we eat and how these choices affect our lives, Slow Home empowers you to take more control of your home and improve the quality of how you live while reducing your environmental impact and futureproofing the long term investment value of your home.
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