Verge House

Coronado, CA, United States

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Verge House

Coronado, CA, United States

Firm

Crossman Architecture

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2017

SIZE

3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

BUDGET

Undisclosed

A sanctuary for a family of four, the Verge House is an intensive exploration of an idea the client calls “indoor-outdoor confusion.” Located in the heart of picturesque Coronado Island this courtyard home’s principal view is not outward to the village but inward to an L-shaped acrylic-walled play pool serving as the visual and recreational focus of the south-facing courtyard. Upstairs, the master suite revolves around a private court focusing on a cluster of bamboo that thrust through the oculus-punctured roof. The client asked for a design that mixed water, landscape, openness, and intimacy in a way that subverted traditional distinctions between rooms, floors, and interior and exterior domains. This we provided by deconstructing the border—or verge—where inside becomes outside: single-track glass doors tucked under sheltering overhangs disappear to playfully shift or erase the threshold; material and planar continuity of floors, walls, and ceilings exaggerate the seamlessness between spaces; and outdoors penetrate indoors and vice versa to conflate space.