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Smart Homes for Heroes / San Antonio, Texas
Eden Pearl
For Eden Pearl and his family, a specially adapted home had to support everyday comfort without turning simple routines into complicated ones. The technology needed to belong in the background, ready when someone needed it.
This San Antonio residence became the first of six Gary Sinise Foundation homes ITAM helped equip. Joel brought together people, equipment and expertise, then coordinated the controls around the ways the family and caregivers would actually live in the home.
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It began with listening.
Then making it work.
One home, one family and an approach that would define the five projects to follow: understand how the spaces are used, coordinate the people doing the work and let the finished technology make daily life easier.
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01 / THE PEOPLE
A project built
by people together.
The work required more than selecting devices. It meant coordinating with the foundation, construction team and partners while keeping the family’s needs at the center of each decision.
Every useful function had to be easy to reach and easy to understand once the installation crews had gone home.
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02 / BEHIND THE EXPERIENCE
What should be
simple every day?
Separate temperature zones helped the household maintain comfort in different areas. Shared access for family and caregivers made household functions easier to manage, while entertainment and other controls were coordinated through one understandable experience.
The equipment rack kept the supporting systems together; the real accomplishment was what the family could do without thinking about that equipment.
THE RESULT
A home for the family.
A standard for the work.
Eden Pearl’s residence established a people-first way of working that carried through ITAM’s next five Gary Sinise Foundation homes: design around the individual, coordinate carefully and make the finished experience useful every day.
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