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