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Project - Passive Solar Home

Project - Passive Solar Vacation Home

Guest House and Office Complex
Old San Marcos Road, Santa Barbara - 2100 sf

Upper East Remodel with Sunroom and Garage Addition
Garden Street, Santa Barbara

Sun Room and MBR deck - After

Sun Room - Before

Kitchen - After

Kitchen - Before

New Residence
El Sueno Road, Santa Barbara - 2500sf

Low income downtown housing. Three 800sf units.

This project for Homes for People, a local developer of low income housing, was rewarding in that we were able to incorporate the existing dwelling into the project, rather than tear it down and start with all new materials and most likely a design not in keeping with the neighborhood. The existing home was integrated into the design.

The existing home was very run down and uninhabitable. Over the years several layers had been added to the rear of the home turning it into a warren of rooms. With the ungraceful additions striped away the inerrant beauty and potential of the existing Victorian home shown through.

Economically it was a toss up whether to keep the existing building or start from scratch. Because in the area and on both sides of the street lived other homes similar in style, working with the existing building allowed us to preserve the fabric of the neighborhood. This would have been impossible had we raised the structure and started from scratch.

One of the more unusual features of the project is the large out door decks for the upper two units. I was able to create a much larger open area by creating access to the upper units between two of the garages and using the tops of the garages as the zoning code mandated open space. Instead of a minimal code defined 60sf, each unit had 200sf of private outdoor open space.

Project - Elevations for New Residence - Santa Barbara

Project - Hope Ranch Guest House

Miscelleaneous Santa Barbara buildings.

Garden Shed Santa Barbara

Project - Santa Barbara Passive Solar Guest House

Project - Santa Barbara Passive Solar Residence with Porch

Foodland Market Addition - Exterior - Santa Barbara

Foodland Market Addition - Interior - Santa Barbara

2nd Story Addition & Major Remodel - Goleta
Goleta Beautiful Award

After

Before

New Residence
Cathedral Oaks Road, Santa Barbara

New Residence - Goleta
Goleta Beautiful Award

New Residence - Santa Barbara

Permaculture Design ~ Natural Architecture ~ Santa Barbara

Roy Prince Architect

We seek essence. We explore the essences you want to express in your home and meld this with the essence of place and materials. It's an organic process that yields sanctuary.

Roy Prince Architect designs elegantly simple additions, remodels and small homes, which are built with natural materials, are energy efficient, and healthy. We like the word optimize over perfection or maximize.

Permaculture ethics and design principles inspire the work.

We also design rain water harvesting and grey water systems, and earth works to retain and manage water ~ slow, spread and sink water on the land you are stewarding.

We are based in Santa Barbara, California but work with natural builders and others all over the country and beyond.

Roy Prince Architect is a design studio and environmental consultancy dedicated to green & natural architecture and building and high performance, environmentally inspired, healthy, and essence rich small green homes and work places.

Roy Prince Architect creates healthy and nurturing places and spaces for people to live and work. In addition to permaculture and essence seeking we employ inspired geometries, keen observation and intuition in our design methodologies to achieve place and space that is sanctuary for people.

Our goal is to combine client needs and wants with sustainable design principles using current best practices and age old materials and processes to create beautiful and healthy living and working places and spaces sensitive to humans, place, and environment.

California Licensed Architect - 1993
Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC) - South Africa - 1995
Biomimicry Design Course - Maho Bay, USVI - 2004
LEED AP - 2005
Permaculture - Rain Water Harvesting (Keyline Design) - Santa Barbara - 2007
Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC) - Quail Springs, California - 2008
International Natural Building Colloquium - Santa Barbara - 2008

Roy Prince consults with individuals, builders and professionals on issues of site and building design, structural systems and materials, heating, cooling and ventilation, solar and energy efficiency, and green and healthy building processes and materials.

We design remodels, additions & small new homes and work places, and consult with home owners, contractors, developers and architects on green, natural and environmental design, and green, natural and healthy building materials and systems.

US GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL - MEMBER

Environmental & Ecological Design in Santa Barbara
Permaculture design principles
Simplicity, beauty and balance
Whole systems
Natural patterns
Local materials
Passive solar energy
Energy efficient
Micro-climate
Conservation
Natural building materials
Recycled building materials
Resource efficient building materials
Renewable resource building materials
Non-toxic materials & processes
Earthworks & swales for water management
Keyline design (Key Line design)
Water conservation
Rain water harvesting
Grey water systems design

Roy Prince Architect has adopted the Architecture 2030 Challenge.
We are committed to projects that meet or exceed the Architecture 2030 Challenge benchmarks to reduce fossil fuel use & move towards energy independence.