EDEN PEARL

The San Antonio residence was where ITAM’s work with specially adapted homes began. Master Sergeant Eden Pearl and his family were the first recipients of a home through the Gary Sinise Foundation’s R.I.S.E. program, a project intended to make it possible for Eden to live at home with his family after years of medical treatment.

For ITAM, the work began well before an installation crew arrived. The challenge was to assemble an integrated technology solution and secure the equipment required to deliver it. Support from ELAN and an extensive network of manufacturers made the installation possible; ITAM designed and installed the control and entertainment technology as part of the Foundation’s larger homebuilding effort. The systems were intended to make common household functions easier to operate and to bring entertainment and control into a cohesive experience.

The project established a practical approach that carried through the next five residences: coordinate closely with the people building the home, understand how it would be used, and let the engineering serve the household rather than the other way around.

Read the Foundation’s remembrance of Eden Pearl →

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