Year: 2025

San Jose, CA

Reimagined Ranch House

Photographer

Vittoria Zupicich

The project involves the sustainable reimagination of an existing 1950’s ranch house in the Hathaway Park neighborhood of San Jose. By retaining the existing concrete slab and the 1,640/sf footprint of the home, the impacts on the existing foundation and amount of new concrete required were minimal. The 100% electrically powered home also employs passive heating and cooling design features such as operable north facing skylights that provide natural daylight year-round and release hot air when the temperature rises. The new Entry Porch, with a privacy screen of wooden slats, adds a dynamic feature along the street to distinguish the home from the identical one-story gabled structures commonplace in the neighborhood.

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