This urban infill project is comprised of courtyard houses. The heart of each home is a private courtyard that expands the experience of the home by blurring the line between inside and out. 
While the Six takes cues from Tucson’s architectural past – central courtyard, plastered masonry walls, and minimal western exposure – it is an emphatic expression of our place in history.
(How about if we blow out the center courtyard wall and make it all one house, Old-Spanish style?)
Very cool. Thanks for bringing high quality, innovative architecture to our attention.
What’s your source for these designs you bring out now & then?
Every time I ever had to share a wall/ceiling/floor with somebody else, I ended up with people who had active and noisy habits at 3AM.
Great floorplan. Love the gallery as you walk from garage to great room. Poor choice on range in kitchen.
I wish I could tell you that I search high and low for the best houses around the globe, but I don’t.
I am a subscriber to:
http://www.contemporist.com/
They aren’t all great, but a diversion from the pink stucco, neo-taco mcmansions.
What is neo-taco mcmansions? Pic please.
Daniel at #5.
Every house on the block leading up to the house featured in this video (one of my favorite jtr videos)
http://www.youtube.com/user/JimtheRealtor#p/u/5/6_F7l3_6KCo
is probably an excellent example of neo-taco mcmansion.
love the house/plans other than that I would move the master off the shared wall and slide the kitchen down in its place.
or do like JtR, live large, and make it a hacienda!
The only windows face the inner courtyard … aren’t prisons designed the same way!!!
New To LA, maybe you’re thinking they should have gabled roofs for snow and lawns?
The plans have windows facing out as well. Look again.
And, read a little bit about the history of southwest design, and, what is the most optimal approach to building in hot dry climates.
Imported bias is part of why we have so many neo-taco mcmansions. Thanks for the source JtR.
This will be pretty uncomfortable, in my opinion. There is no adequate overhang to protect from the sun and that house will be hooooootttttt. In heat like that, in intense sun conditions, you really need deep overhangs. Great design for someplace else, though.
Mozart, you know nothing about me and where I have lived. Yes, there are windows facing out, but they are high up. The views from the living area are of the cement couryard walls. The bedrooms have windows that face a fence or your neighbors cement wall. We all have different tastes and this house would feel claustrophobic to me. The house would feel like I was living in a basement with some light-wells. We are allowed to express OUR opinions, right?