Quick Facts: Firm: Bonetti/Kozerski Architecture. What they’re offering: Free architectural plans for a 1,700 sq ft fire-resistant home. Why: To help victims of the 2025 LA wildfires rebuild. Design features: Minimalist, sustainable, open-plan, naturally ventilated, with fire-resistant materials throughout. Cost to download the plans: Free.
After the Los Angeles wildfires tore through communities in early 2025, New York-based firm Bonetti/Kozerski Architecture did something unusual: they designed a complete, buildable home and gave the plans away for free. No licensing fee. No catch. Just a thoughtful, fire-resistant house design, available to anyone who needs to rebuild.
What the Home Actually Looks Like
The design is 1,700 square feet, open-plan, and built around natural light and cross-ventilation. The materials are chosen as much for resilience as for beauty: non-combustible cladding, fire-resistant glazing, defensible spatial planning. But the aesthetic doesn’t feel like a bunker. It feels like a home someone would genuinely want to live in, which is the whole point.
Why Fire Resistance Has to Be Beautiful
One of the persistent problems with fire-safe building is that it tends to produce architecture that prioritizes survival over livability. Bonetti/Kozerski’s design pushes back on that. If people are going to voluntarily build fire-resistant homes in fire-prone areas, the architecture has to be genuinely appealing. Otherwise nobody builds it, and the cycle continues.
An Unusually Generous Act
Architecture firms giving away complete plans is vanishingly rare. Full drawings represent significant creative and technical investment. That Bonetti/Kozerski chose to release this work freely, specifically in response to a disaster, says something worth noting: design has a public responsibility that goes beyond the client relationship. This is what that looks like in practice.
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8 Comments
They don’t, but maybe to be fire-resistant, things need to be more robust.
Agreed, hope this is just one of many styles.
Thank you for your work.
Need a design that is Craftsman. A lot of history was erased in the Alta Dena fire. We all need to bring back that vibe. Look at Serembe in the Atlanta, GA region of the US. Designs like that.
If I were King, these plans would be made available to everyone who lost their home. For many of those rebuilding, but are confused about how to begin the process, these plans could provide a starting point, hope, and a smile. Others would smile when they realize they have found their next home.
A personal note to you folks: I just stared at the pictures and floor plans for almost two hours. Excellent. I say that, because a hobby is looking at floor plans, always making multiple changes. My ONLY change to your design was to move a wall one foot!
These photos do not exude warmth and comfort.
Awesome
Brilliant in every way!!!
Lovely home love the design beautiful