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The newest “clean and green” modern prefabricated home — the Sunset Breezehouse — was a collaboration between Sunset Magazine and Bay Area architect Michelle Kaufmann, principal in Michelle Kaufmann Designs. It was on display May 21 and 22, 2005, at Sunset headquarters in Menlo Park, California, as part of Sunset’s annual Celebration Weekend festival.
Kaufmann’s Glidehouse debuted at Celebration Weekend 2004 and helped draw more than 24,000 visitors over two days.
Judging from the crowds at this year's event, at least as many came to see the Sunset Breezehouse. The home has now been dismanteled and moved to its permanent location in Northern California.
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| Folding glass doors open both ends of the central "breezeroom" to fresh air. Windows throughout the home wash the walls with natural light. |
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The contemporary 1,750-square-foot home is a flexible, eco-oriented, light-filled, two-bedroom, two-bath dwelling.
The signature feature is the Breezeroom at the center, a glass-enclosed breezeway-porch under a distinctive butterfly-shaped roof. This space functions as the main living and dining space between the kitchen and children’s bedroom wing on one side, and the flexible library/guest/office and master suite on the other.
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Movable walls of glass open the Breezeroom for easy indoor-outdoor living, dramatically expanding the house. Terraces and decks are at front and rear. The modules are constructed in a factory near Vancouver, British Columbia, and trucked to Sunset, where the “button-up work” is completed and the home is furnished by the magazine’s staff.
On the Sunset Breezehouse“Our objective in developing the Sunset Breezehouse with Bay Area architect Michelle Kaufmann is to provide a contemporary, outdoor-oriented, architect-designed modular home with wide market appeal. It’s a reinvented, sustainably built, Gen-X version of the Eichler atrium house of the 1960s.”— Dan Gregory, Sunset Home Editor
“Thanks to walls of glass that fold to one side, the Breezeroom completely opens to one or both courtyard gardens, making the Sunset Breezehouse’s flexible living spaces feel twice as large.” —Michelle Kaufmann, Architect
“The Sunset Breezehouse represents indoor-outdoor living at its best—a subject that has long been identified with Sunset. The flexible glass walls of the Breezeroom can close for an intimate breakfast or open for a grand evening gathering.” —Peter Whiteley, Sunset Senior Writer
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