LIFE BEYOND FIRST CLASS
DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE
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WATERFRONT
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The award-winning Florida-based firm, Strang Design’s, newest project reflects its full scope of services – architecture, interior design, decorating, and landscape – and its deep commitment to sustainable design.
Strang Design, a multidisciplinary design firm with offices in Miami and Sarasota, Florida, has recently completed an 8,125 sq ft residence, sited along the Tarpon Bend Canal front in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Reflecting the firm’s deep commitment to a design philosophy it dubs ‘Environmental Modernism,’ the award-winning residence also showcases numerous sustainable design moves.
Strang Design’s scope showcases the firm’s integrated design prowess. It includes everything from designing and overseeing all aspects of the home’s architecture to interior design and decor, art advisory, and landscape design. Strang Design designed the home around existing oak trees to honor the surrounding terrain, making it feel both timeless and at one with nature.
Furthermore, the team was explicitly tasked with expanding the house within the grove of trees while embracing sustainable design features and innovative wellness technologies—all of utmost importance to the clients.
The design underscores the firm’s ongoing explorations of regional modernism by adapting a rectilinear frame with site-specific and climate-specific considerations.
In this case, vertical ‘fins’ that address shading and privacy concerns were incorporated within the
rectilinear frame. The team utilized a passive design approach to help reduce the home’s energy footprint while also integrating engineered systems focused on wellness.
Various design moves include cross ventilation, deep overhangs, and a solar panel array on the roof. In addition, the home’s lighting design works in response to circadian rhythms with the option to be programmed. At the same time, a mechanical water system treats and enhances the quality of the local water supply.