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ARCHITECTURE

a sample design portfolio by

 

Solar Cottage No.1 (1996). A direct-gain passive solar residence with solarium and roof terrace. Garage connects to main structure with exterior space bridge. Master bedroom connects to south deck with interior space bridge. 17' ceiling at living room. Steel framing with cement plaster/gypsum board walls. Concrete slab-on-grade/integral footing. Thermal storage mass in tile floor over concrete and water tubes. An energy, resource, and space-efficient building (700sf total int. floor area).

In his designs, Mr. Moore augments the 2,000 year-old traditional Vitruvian triad---firmness, commodity, delight---with two additional parameters to bring architecture into the next millennium....

• Energy Efficiency. Energy will remain the crucial environmental design problem in the 21st century. We must turn away from fossil fuels and bring on the Solar Age. All architecture must be solar architecture: passive, active or photovoltaic.
• Resource Efficiency. The Europeans refer to this as Green Design. The construction industry has to stop being the DESTRUCTION industry. We must build with materials and processes that have a minimal impact on the natural world. By so doing, we'll create a better world for our children and future generations.

Stokkebye Residence. Aptos, California (1979). Spectacular half-million dollar mansion set into a south-facing hillside overlooking Monterey Bay. Complex interior spatial relationships with six different floor levels, and additional terraced exterior patios for swimming pool below. Decks or patios relate every major interior space to the outdoors, the view, and the sun. Roofline derives from natural contour of the land. I featured this building in the interview for my California architectural license.

Apologies for the weak graphic resolution on these old (36x24) drawings, but no apologies necessary for this architecture. I well say this, however: In good conscience, I no longer design wood-frame buildings, covered with cedar shingles.
 

Education: Mr. Moore was educated at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. He received his M.Arch. degree from Stanford in 1972. (Note: He also holds a second master's degree, studying Russian history at the University of California, Santa Barbara (M.A., 1969).

Credentials: Michael Moore has been a licensed architect for over 20 years; his first state license (B-92), from Wyoming, is still current today. He's also been licensed in California and Oregon. He has held the NCARB Certificate (No.10,069) for over 15 years.

Experience: Mr. Moore worked in large and small architectural offices in California, Oregon, and Hawaii. He's also had his own design/consulting business. After the tragic death of his young wife in 1986 he turned to architectural education to allow him more time to raise their only child---still a baby at the time of her mother's death. He's taught in colleges and universities for over a dozen years, to the present day. Mr. Moore always tries to bring his real-world experiences as a professional architect into the design studio/classroom. Most recent teaching: University of California, Irvine and Yakima Valley College.

Atkins Residence. Corvallis, Oregon (1976). $28,000 base cost; mortgage payment of $250/month. It costs less to heat than a typical two-bedroom apartment. Utilizies solar balcony cut into distinctive roofline (off Master Bedroom Suite). 15' ceiling at living room with large glass area on south. Monopitch roof truss allowed for quick and economical construction. "It went up like a tent," in the contractor's words. I'm very proud of this building; it's not bad for 28K. Phase two (still unbuilt) would almost double the interior floor area. This was the first building I designed that was actually built.

Photo/Graphic Samples. This online design portfolio essentially derives from two sources....

• Constructed Buildings. You'll see a number of fine buildings, principally from the period of 1975-1982 when Mr. Moore worked as a designer/project architect for Leonard Lincoln, AIA in Palo Alto, California and Lawrence Bauer, an urban planner in Corvallis, Oregon.
• Theoretical Design Proposals. Theoretical, i.e. unbuilt, but well developed in terms of design and drawing. Complete sets of construction documents and renderings (as well as schematic preliminaries) accompany all these buildings. These projects span the years 1984-2,000. Many are still current in terms of educational projects, i.e. a basis for college teaching instructional curriculum.
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Solveson Residence. Pajaro Dunes, California---and Denyse (1977). Completed while Project Architect with Leonard Lincoln. Greenpole/Stairs/Railing Detail at bottom of page. Same notes apply, as with Johnson Residence (below).

• Solar Vernacular.
• White Solar Cubes.
• Solar Cottages.
• Solar Miniatures
• The Solar Box.

      Solar Vernacular            White Solar Cube            Solar Cottage                  Solar Miniature                 Solar Box
 

Comments and inquiries are always welcome.
Contact the architect at this email address: wildcat@nwinfo.net
Phone: (253)884-2015.

Note: All renderings, drawings, photographs and website created by Michael Allan Moore, Architect.

ENVIRONMENTAL
ARCHITECTURE: 
architecture in partnership with the natural world....

.....I've heard it said that God is in the detail.

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