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Residential Building Type:
  • Single-family home
  • Multi-family residential
  • ADU
Project size:
  • 2001 sq ft to 5000 sq ft
  • 5001 sq ft or More

Sustainability Expertise & Credentials

Sustainability Expertise: Yes
Sustainability Expertise & Credentials:

Dean Larkin Design advances sustainability through material innovation and site integration. Projects like Bluejay and Swallow we optimize daylight with strategic solar orientation and deep orientation; In Latimer, thermal mass walls pair with local materials; Tigertail demonstrates seamless indoor-outdoor flow with passive ventilation and high performance glazing. Our approach fuses rigorous building science with site specific elegance to reduce energy use while elevation design and our clients comfort.

Fire Resiliency Experience: Yes
Fire Resiliency Experience Details:

Fire resiliency is deeply personal at Dean Larkin Design. After guiding his own daughter through a rebuilding when her own home was lost to fire, Dean bring firsthand knowledge and empathy to every rebuild project. Our design integrate fire resistant materials, defensible landscapes and advanced building systems to every project. Thus ensuring that our projects are not own beautiful, but resilient in the face of California evolving fire risks.

Dean Larkin Design, Founded in 1999, is a Los Angeles-based architectural firm led by Dean Larkin AIA. Educated at USC and with a formative experience at Landry Design Group, Dean established a practice dedicated to contemporary residential work that engages climate, site and lifestyle. The firm philosophy emphasizes architecture as a spatial experience-layering light, form, and materiality to dissolve boundaries Read more...