{"id":247426,"date":"2025-01-23T10:36:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=canvasflow&p=247426"},"modified":"2025-01-23T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:36:31","slug":"caribbean-home-morneo-borck-boy-2024","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/caribbean-home-morneo-borck-boy-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability Is Baked Into The Blueprint Of This Caribbean Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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January 23, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Jesse Dorris<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Michael Moran<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Sustainability Is Baked Into The Blueprint Of This Caribbean Home<\/h1>\n\n\n

2024 Best of Year Winner for Large City House<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Residences located in tropical areas like the Caribbean must strike the right balance between maximizing and mitigating the ample resources of sun, breeze, and rain. Such was the case for this house, designed around natural ventilation. The 16,400-square-foot structure by Moneo Brock<\/a> takes the form of a trio of travertine-clad concrete platforms\u2014each set at a slightly different level to follow the topography\u2014anchoring a grid of steel columns that in turn support vaulted brick roofs. Walls are alternately sliding glass, fully open, or composed of wooden louvers; on the property\u2019s street-facing side, a screen wall built of local stone hushes traffic noise. Sustainability is baked in: Solar panels harness sunlight, large cisterns collect rainwater used to feed the numerous ponds and pools that cool the interior, and tanks beneath the main slab purify blackwater for household use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PROJECT TEAM: BEL\u00c9N MONEO; JEFFREY BROCK; FEDERICO P\u00c9REZ; JAVIER DEL POZO; FRANCISCO BLAZQUEZ; PEDRO ARNANZ; ISMAEL SANZ; YAIZA CAMACHO.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n