It was nice to come across this recent article by M.M.Bianchi for Carolina Home + Garden magazine on our friend and colleague’s home in West Asheville. Ross Smith’s {Assembly Architecture and Build} family home brings a relaxed and light, California lifestyle to this site specific designed home.

“But if the Assembly vibe is light years beyond the Arts & Crafts look, it also veers away from the region’s other overtly contemporary homes. While Westwood Wedge — where Smith lives with his wife Anna Welton and their infant son Eben — has a tidy footprint, it isn’t dizzyingly tall, like many urban new builds; instead, the home spreads itself around a spacious central atrium, “allowing for an interior garden to clean the indoor air and [provide] natural ventilation during the summer months,” says Smith. The building’s eponymous wedge shape is engineered to the dimensions of a small lot, but its long shed roof supports an expansive solar array.

“Most ‘modern’ homes that you see going up around Asheville are stylistically borrowing from modern design, [but] Westwood Wedge’s modernism is a byproduct of site and climate research, not an exercise in style,” Smith explains.”

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