Nestled in a serene and green neighborhood at the heart of Silicon Valley, one of the most creative communities in the world, where the future is imagined every day, this house seeks to claim its share from this innovative culture and aims to explore and adopt a contemporary architectural language and spatial quality for a single-family home.
The project is laid out in a linear east-west footprint, with an initial request for maximizing the number of independent and small spaces. To respond to all urban codes, contextual, and programmatic considerations, the main spatial idea for us was to create an integrated space between contraction and expansion. Instead of following conventional farmhouse typology as the dominant type of California houses and accommodating spaces in a predefined mold, the house's form evolves through a transformation process, transitioning from a simple cube in the east to bifurcated and shifted volumes in the west. In the middle, a rebirth takes place as the volumes diverge and flow atop each other, creating a dual perspective while maintaining a unified whole.
This transition from contraction to expansion enhances the spatial experience and aligns with the project’s program while simultaneously framing views of the surroundings.it creates a hierarchical spatiality that organizes spaces. Smaller individual rooms are located in the east end, while larger common spaces are situated in the expanded west.
Moreover, the formal narrative of the house creates its own sculptural legibility, allowing residents to engage with it from various physical and mental perspectives. From every angle and direction, the building takes shape, changes, and the interplay of shadow and light finds a specific rhythm.
Ultimately, rather than composing elements in an assembly that follows a specific plan, the house seeks to use its formal properties to organize the flow of space within the interiors, frame views, and capture light, which leads to interacting with its occupants in a deeper and, perhaps, more poetic way.