Influences and Principles

Influences

• Mid Century Modern architecture and furnishings.
• Art Deco, a fancier style from a similarly monied era before the car ate our world.
• "A New York state of mind" -- think living within walking distance of a lot of shops and eateries and not needing a car to live large.
• Dutch Golden Age -- a period in Dutch history akin to post-World War II America with a relatively large "middle class" living better than middle class usually means without succumbing to the sickess known as North American Affluenza.

Principles

• Passive Solar design, which is both more sustainable and simultaneously more comfortable for people than crappy "cardboard" apartments with forced-air HVAC trying to manipulate air temperature that is never quite right.
• Daylighting, which allows for much of the light to be provided by sunlight during the day.
• Flexibility and antifragile design to empower residents to have control over their lives and remain comfortable no matter the weather and the occasional standard hiccup of modern life, like a brief power outage.
• Car-friendly without being car-centric.