Planning Ideas Scrapbook:
Southwest Design Ideas
Final Specs:
- Southwest Contemporary Design
- Stucco exterior - redrock red
- Passive solar design
- Puebloan style
- Rounded corners
Ideas
- Pueblo Style
- Traditional framing rather than adobe
- Rounded corner (interior and exterior walls)
- Stucco exterior finish - clay (red/brown color)
- Notice the passive solar windows
Resources
Planning for Rural Site Development - The Site Inventory
- Southwest Architecture
- Southwest Dreamhome
- Adobe Homes - The Magic of Solar Adobe
- Adobe Homes and Houses
- SuCasa: Southwestern Homes
- Interior Design Ideas
- Adobe Abodes
- Southwest homes: Outside stone deck ; Ceiling Fan
- Southwest Builders
Events
Tools for Planning
HGTV
- Earth Friendly Homes
- The Pueblo
- Adobe Builder
- California Adobe
- Traditional Adobe
- Pueblo Revival Style Master Bath
- Mission Furniture
- Poured Earth Home
Sustainable Architecture - The traditional rammed earth approach is often used by self-builders.
- Low pitched roof
- Thick masonry walls
- Recessed windows
- Tile floors
- Roof beams exposed
Southwest Artwork