HYBRID HOUSE can be many things: high-end residence with expensive finishes or first home in a suburb. What makes it unique is that it allows your budget to go further and it's designed to suit you and your unique needs.

residence for a briard (completion 11/07)

This is a 3,000 sf residence in the residential neighborhood of Culver City, California. Designed for a music critic / architecture writer, his wife and two children -- and their two very large, very hairy, Briard dogs from France. Everything from the stairs to the finishes are designed to accommodate the brood. This is also one of the most eco-friendly projects to ever come out of our office. more

residence for a sculptor 3 (complete)

A 4,500 sf high-end residence designed and built in Santa Rosa, California, this building used the metaphor of the owner/sculptor's tall pottery vessels to create the vertical entry space. Stairs wind up one curving wall and a two-story metal sculpture defines the other. The owners wanted no exterior upkeep (repainting) so metal panels, normally used as roofing, wrap the house. more

residence at the butte (complete)

A 4,500 sf residence on a horse ranch in Oregon this home is 140 feet long and 25 feet wide. Situated between a small lake and distant cliffs, the site is stunning. The design of the building skin deliberately responds to the weathered rock of the butte. The clients requested privacy, an art studio, and space for a teenage son. more

helicopter house

A 4,000 sf residence hovering above a 2,000 foot cliff, the house is designed with four interior spaces that are open to the sky: a zen rock garden surrounds the master bath; a bamboo garden separates the master bed from the main house; a swimming pool penetrates the house between the kitchen and an in-house sound recording studio; a sculptural staircase sweeps through an entry that is open to the stars. The roof of this HYBRID HOUSE is designed to accommodate a helipad.more

twist house

A 3,000 sf residence perched on a site that slopes on both ends, this house is just at the beginning stages of design for a young couple and their daughter. Due to extremely strict size limitations for the neighborhood, the design creates almost as many square feet in exterior "rooms" as interior, in order to take advantage of it's Southern California location and fine weather.more

x house

This 8,000sf high-end residence designed as a second home in Sun Valley, Idaho, will have expansive rooms, luxurious finishes and views that go for miles. The x-shape of the design accommodates four wings that can function independently: a guest wing, children's wing, master bedroom wing and a central great room which, along with the fourth wing, provides the public areas of the house. This way, multiple families can vacation together, converge when desired and still have privacy.more

c house

Designed as a 2,000sf second home for a mountain lot that drops away to magnificent views, this project is a perfect example of the way that our part prefab all custom (TM) concept allows the HYBRID HOUSE to be built on many different kinds of lots, including steep hillsides. This home will have a separate work studio suspended above the parking. A gently curved, c-shaped "sky fence" wraps the studio and main house and links them to the two main rock outcrops on the site. Some of these rocks are also enclosed by the glass walls of the living room. more

green / houses

A pair of townhouses that face one another over a drivable courtyard, these two houses are like siblings—related but not identical. They both have interior gardens that are open to above so that the core of each house is a green living space. Much of the extensive glazing will be a multi-wall translucent material often used in greenhouses in order to allow in light but retain privacy. more

skygarden townhouses

The driving force behind this project is a pair of developers who want to create living spaces that are extremely green and artful. This project is a small-lot subdivision in which each homeowner owns the land under their house. This means each of the ten houses is freestanding. The houses will be extremely eco-friendly with extensive green strategies and materials. These include small greenhouses-in-the-air that the homeowner can use to grow vegetables, trees or other plants. more

house of light

Light is extremely important to this project, not least because one of the occupants is a professional photographer. A centerpiece of the house, the great room is a double-story room with a central skylight designed to frame the sky. Double-height windows in the great room open to the view over the canyon and the rooms on this side of the house will fill with the play of light on water from the long pool/hot tub/reflecting pond that runs the length of the house. An interior garden, open to the sky, brings sunlight directly into the heart of the house. more

Please check back: we have over a dozen HYBRID HOUSE part prefab, all custom(TM) projects in design or construction. More on the projects listed above as well as other Sander Architects homes can be found in the residential section of the website.more