Resilient Design
Designed to mitigate wildfire conditions
Some of our most beautiful sites are located in what is now called the wildland-urban interface and are subject to devastating wildfires.
In order to mitigate a wildfire’s destruction, there are several elements that can be designed into the building and site to help prevent the loss of a house.
The Challenge
When designing the Mazama Meadow House, care was taken to incorporate Firewise design strategies including the use of fire rated metal roofing, non-combustible steel support beams, slab-on-grade construction to prevent flames from moving through a crawl space, and open soffits.
The landscape strategy incorporates rockeries and gabion walls as fire breaks.
It was specifically designed to limit the use of combustible vegetation and large trees while utilizing a sprinkler-system to keep the low-growing plants consistently well-irrigated.
