Sander Architects have designed a residence facing the San Jacinto mountains which features a simple roof that opens to the home toward the surroundings. With temperatures in Palm Springs reaching over a stifling 120 degrees, the western exposure of the home "has created an enormously difficult problem with solar exposure".
Sander's design of a fifteen-foot horizontal cantilever reduces (to practically zero) the time when the setting summer sun's rays will penetrate the interiors; however, the cantilever is angled in such a way to allow winter sun to "more readily enter the house to warm it when the weather turns colder".
