Article source: Allen+Maurer Architects Ltd.

Pebbles lives among the pebbles, as underground garage tunnelled into the steep hillside from the access street at the north-east. It was too steep to build a road to the top of the ridge from where one looks up and down and across the Okanagan Valley and -Lake, so this was the only option. Pebbles is also home to a wine room, kept at the temperature of the earth surrounding it, a foyer, and the geothermal heat pump.

west patio and rusty steel wall, photograph by Martin Knowles

• Architects: Allen+Maurer Architects Ltd.
• Project: Sloan Berkes House
• Location: 171 Village Heights Place, Naramata, BC, Canada
• Photography: Martin Knowles, Derek Lepper and Florian Maurer
• Architect of Record: Allen+Maurer Architects Ltd. (now Landform Architecture and Design Build Ltd.) (http://www.allenmaurer.com/home.htm)
• Design: Florian Maurer, MAIBC, MRAIC, LEED AP (Florian Maurer Architect (http://florianmaurer.ca/home.htm)
• Structural: Fast+Epp Structural Engineers, Vancouver (www.fastepp.com)
• Contractor: Artifex Design Build Ltd. (now Landform Architecture and Design Build Ltd.)
• Completion Date: 2013
• Software used: AutoCAD LT and Sketchup

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