Venice is such a difficult place to leave which is why the owners of this Brooks avenue house decided to stay put and hire Bricault Design to remodel and add 1700 square feet to accommodate their larger family.

Borrowing from what mother nature gave Venice, a key design goal was to create a feeling of being outdoors even while being inside. This eliminated the needed for air conditioning.

Perhaps the greatest visual appeal comes from the new master bedroom extending out from the second story while creating a carport below. Clad with a living wall system, the volume is tied to the landscaped courtyard.

Green features include solar panels on the roof’s softscape, a high-efficiency combination boiler that supplies both radiant floor heating and hot water, low flush toilets, low VOC finishes throughout the house, and indigenous landscaping watered via captured rainwater. Read post in ArchDaily.