In 1989, a fire burned the entire neighborhood including the house that stood on this narrow site of which only two large redwoods survived.
The client, a landscape architect, wanted a home that providedan open plan with sunny decks and allowed the largest redwood to coexist with the new home. The house’s final form took on that of a slender multi-storied structure with a small footprint well away from the redwood’s shallow root system. The large trellis overhead suggests
a forest by how the exposed roof structure, supported by tall steel columns acting as steel tree trunks, creates a forest-like canopy
over the cantilevered deck below. Inside, the stair rises inside the home with two bridges that span across the stair volume with views to the forest surrounding the home.