nicolas.boullosa: the berkeley street where the mcgee house is located
nicolas.boullosa: kirsten dirksen (faircompanies.com), visiting the mcgee house (berkeley)
nicolas.boullosa: mcgee house in berkeley (2 stories personal home of green architects cate leger and karl wanaselja)
nicolas.boullosa: storage furniture elevated from the floor in the back of the house
nicolas.boullosa: the bottom story (a cornice between stories gathers the rain and conducts it to the front yard)
nicolas.boullosa: the headquarters of leger wanaselja architecture studio (in the backyard of the mcgee house)
nicolas.boullosa: solar cooker
nicolas.boullosa: karl wanaselja and cate leger open their architecture studio to *faircompanies
nicolas.boullosa: through the window, the library inside their office
nicolas.boullosa: their partly edible backyard (beekeeping, fruit trees, herbs), gather their professional meetings
nicolas.boullosa: the back of the house opens to the redwood-backyard
nicolas.boullosa: from the backyard
nicolas.boullosa: karl wanaselja and cate leger talk to *faircompanies about their house in berkeley
nicolas.boullosa: stone, redwood, solar cooker
nicolas.boullosa: solar heat in the roof
nicolas.boullosa: cate leger (left) and kirsten dirksen (*faircompanies) follow karl wanaselja to the front yard
nicolas.boullosa: the top story, made out of salvaged car roofs, evocates the scales of a fish (karl wanaselja)
nicolas.boullosa: the "scales" of the mcgee house in berkeley (made by karld wanaselja out of salvaged car roofs)
nicolas.boullosa: the bottom floor walls resemble the traditional west coast wooden shingles, with a contemporary-rational touch
nicolas.boullosa: impressive results in the deck's roof (made from old dodge caravan windows)
nicolas.boullosa: entrance
nicolas.boullosa: the front deck on the top story
nicolas.boullosa: redwood trees from the backyard, behind the frontal face of the mcgee house
nicolas.boullosa: cate leger & karl wanaselja (principals, leger wanaselja architecture), and kirsten dirksen (*faircompanies)
nicolas.boullosa: redwoods
nicolas.boullosa: landscaping
nicolas.boullosa: dodge caravan windows serve as deck awnings
nicolas.boullosa: entrance
nicolas.boullosa: karl wanaselja explains where the rainwater collector will be located to collect roof water