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This three bedroom, 2 ½ bath home is located on a hillside lot in the eastern hills of Nevada City, California. The clients grew fond of this hillside viewpoint, and a design emerged that would entertain the clients’ needs while accentuating the seamless connection to the surrounding landscape.
One challenging aspect of the site was the fire-prone area in which the home was to be constructed. This was mitigated by the use of fireproof materials exposed to the elements. The roof is covered with flat concrete tiles, the deck s are concrete and the guardrails are steel supports with cable railings. Copper cladding is used on all exterior walls and the fascias.
The principal architectural character of the house is felt through the many apertures filled with clear glass. Clearstories and transom glazing exposes landscape views, offer varying ambient light patterns throughout the day, while the overhangs and trellises provide sun protection during the summer months. Each room in frames a specific view – either clusters of native pines, fir, and geological features in the surrounding landscape or to the distant hills.
Standing within the foyer, the house feels light and airy, featuring an open plan among the kitchen, dining, and living rooms. At the heart of these rooms, a cement plaster fireplace rests with a concrete hearth cantilevering through the glass wall to the exterior. In contrast, the surrounding glazing allows sight and sun to bathe the senses through glass doors, glass walls, clerestories, and transom glass above a steel trellis, creating spatial individuality supporting the special interests of the clients and their various activities. Furthermore, each room offers a breathtaking, unobstructed view to the treetops and valley beyond.
Interior walls of simple gypsum board and glass panels rise the meet the pitched ceilings to extend the sense of space. Open trellises, light soffits, and carefully places windows add to the visual drama and places the occupants in an environment of naturally shifting variations of illumination. Tones and textures of interior finishes are delicate, using light, clear-stained wood cabinets, natural concrete flooring, and copper accents penetrating from the exterior, creating both visual interest and unity.
Exterior finishes includes a marriage of copper siding with exposed structural steel, a cement plaster fireplace, and walls of glass panels.
Solar tempering through building placement, roof overhangs, and fenestration allow for maximum view opportunities while minimizing unfavorable western sun and heat penetration. Ventable windows allow welcome evening breezes to cross through the home at the clients’ discretion. The presence of the structure is in harmonious relationship with the environment and expresses their desire for privacy and an open connection with the natural landscape. The Woods residence, placed within the many beauties of the site and focused upon the aspirations of the clients, expresses openly a proud freedom and independence of purpose that is at the heart of the life taking place in the countryside.
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This project, completed in 1990, has won 9 major design awards including Honor Awards in the 1991-92 AIA Sunset Western Home Awards and the 1991 AIASJ Awards programs.
One challenging aspect of the site was the fire-prone area in which the home was to be constructed. This was mitigated by the use of fireproof materials exposed to the elements. The roof is covered with flat concrete tiles, the deck s are concrete and the guardrails are steel supports with cable railings. Copper cladding is used on all exterior walls and the fascias.
The principal architectural character of the house is felt through the many apertures filled with clear glass. Clearstories and transom glazing exposes landscape views, offer varying ambient light patterns throughout the day, while the overhangs and trellises provide sun protection during the summer months. Each room in frames a specific view – either clusters of native pines, fir, and geological features in the surrounding landscape or to the distant hills.
Standing within the foyer, the house feels light and airy, featuring an open plan among the kitchen, dining, and living rooms. At the heart of these rooms, a cement plaster fireplace rests with a concrete hearth cantilevering through the glass wall to the exterior. In contrast, the surrounding glazing allows sight and sun to bathe the senses through glass doors, glass walls, clerestories, and transom glass above a steel trellis, creating spatial individuality supporting the special interests of the clients and their various activities. Furthermore, each room offers a breathtaking, unobstructed view to the treetops and valley beyond.
Interior walls of simple gypsum board and glass panels rise the meet the pitched ceilings to extend the sense of space. Open trellises, light soffits, and carefully places windows add to the visual drama and places the occupants in an environment of naturally shifting variations of illumination. Tones and textures of interior finishes are delicate, using light, clear-stained wood cabinets, natural concrete flooring, and copper accents penetrating from the exterior, creating both visual interest and unity.
Exterior finishes includes a marriage of copper siding with exposed structural steel, a cement plaster fireplace, and walls of glass panels.
Solar tempering through building placement, roof overhangs, and fenestration allow for maximum view opportunities while minimizing unfavorable western sun and heat penetration. Ventable windows allow welcome evening breezes to cross through the home at the clients’ discretion. The presence of the structure is in harmonious relationship with the environment and expresses their desire for privacy and an open connection with the natural landscape. The Woods residence, placed within the many beauties of the site and focused upon the aspirations of the clients, expresses openly a proud freedom and independence of purpose that is at the heart of the life taking place in the countryside.
HOUSE
This project, completed in 1990, has won 9 major design awards including Honor Awards in the 1991-92 AIA Sunset Western Home Awards and the 1991 AIASJ Awards programs.
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