Urban Dwell understands the green practice of increasing efficiency with which buildings use resources while reducing the impacts on human health and the environment. Green practitioners strive to achieve both ecological and aesthetic harmony between a structure and its surrounding natural and built environment. We are proud to integrate rapidly renewable plant products such as Coconut Palm, as well as lumber from forests certified to be sustainably managed. Recycled stone and metals, non-toxic products, closed-cell insulation, building orientation, as well as salvation are all incorporated in a design model suited to also reduce the waste generated by the homeowner. Urban Dwell specializes in innovative, green design for both existing home renovations and new modern construction.

Modern homes are still outnumbered in Atlanta, but with the explosion and growth our sophisticated Southern city is experiencing, residents are starting to seek modern design for both diversity and forward-thinking technology.

Urban Dwell often applies the principle phrase “form follows function,” a credo coined by American sculptor Horatio Greenough and adopted by architect Louis Sullivan who brought popular momentum to its meaning in 20th Century design. This philosophy suggests that the shape of a building or object be predicated by or based on its intended function or purpose. Completely honoring style once exhausting all means to generate true function in the structure’s footprint is one of the ways we differ from common practice.