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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe original 2,746-sf mid-century home featured a segmented layout of small rooms and a highly congested core. While the homeowners were fond of its modest horizontal facade and straightforward approach to materials, they recognized the effects of aging and organizational flaws, which bifurcated family living patterns and severed the interior from the site\u2019s views. SAW’s design enlarges the home to 3,457-sf, unlocks its layout to create an open-plan central living space, and enhances its connection to the dramatic vistas. Throughout the home\u2019s interior, fixtures and finishes were designed collaboratively by SAW and one of the homeowners, Kina Ingersoll of Kina Ingersoll Design Workshop. Ingersoll also selected all of the furniture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The design is defined by a sense of expansion as one moves from the front of the house, which is one level along the street, to the back of the house, which carves down to two levels and faces a steep, lush valley. “It\u2019s meant to be perceivedas a building that is both low and extremely high,” says Spiegel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Approaching from the street, the facade is low-slung and grounded in the landscape. Lateral rough-sawn Western Red cedar cladding enhances its horizontality, while slatted trellises slip beyond the roof and frame the front entrances against the guiding angled wall of the garage. A feeling of suspension quickly takes over upon entering the home, where a new circulation path crosses through the diffuse core, drawing a clear slightline from the front door to the suspended rear deck and views beyond. \u201cA basic premise of the design is to use a landscape gesture\u2014a corridor between the front yard and the valley views\u2014to resolve the tension between building elements,\u201d says SAW co-principal Megumi Aihara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This path connects the home\u2019s communal spaces (kitchen, dining area, living room, family room, and outdoor deck) along a central axis, while more private areas (bedrooms, bathrooms, office, and guest suite) peel off to the left and right. Through the front door, a tall, narrow entry corridor opens quickly into a wide, open-format kitchen and dining area beneath exposed-beam ceilings, which are perforated by skylights that punch up and seem to peel back portions of the roof. Crisp white gypsum walls and floor-to-ceiling white millwork enhance a sense of buoyancy and lightness, as subtle long-stemmed pendant lights suspend over a minimal gray kitchen bar volume and a live-edge dining room table, designed by one of the homeowners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While the entire home is an exercise in blurring distinctions between interior and exterior, this reaches its fullest expression at the rear. The kitchen-dining zone spills without interruption into living and family rooms bordered by floor-to-ceiling windows and glass doors that open to the suspended upper deck, implying layered continuity. The sensation is enhanced by interior ceiling beams that extend into outdoor space, forming a slatted trellis over the back deck. \u201cThe steel frame is continuous, defining the space of inhabitation across thresholds,\u201d says Spiegel. \u201cIt carves volume out of the air, claiming territory even on the exterior, even without enclosure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n SAW\u2019s design ensures that even the home\u2019s more intimate rooms converge with the landscape. A new, expansive 16-foot-wide sliding door carves into the primary bedroom\u2019s front wall. This opens onto the redesigned front garden, planted with a lush array of azaleas, lilies, and grasses. The connected primary bathroom is likewise organized around a window that reveals the front yard\u2019s camphor tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The client\u2019s approach to the interiors also melded indoors and outdoors. \u201cWhat inspired me was my upbringing in Hawaii and the constant connection to nature you have growing up there\u2026.I wanted our house to exhibit all of these inspirations: a connection to nature (with large back doors opening to our yard and the surrounding woodland surroundings), and an interior that exhibited a subtle mix of cultures, from old world to new world, Eastern to Western, and modern to traditional. One example of this thinking was our dining room table. We sourced the slab of black walnut from an east coast lumber company on Etsy and then we hired a local woodworker to finish it and a local metalworker to build the raw steel legs that I designed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Extending from the right of the kitchen-dining area, a short hallway stitches the main volume of the home to the kids\u2019 wing, which angles to the west. Windows lining this threshold, create a visual connection through the volumes, revealing the home\u2019s layered, slipping geometries. On the other side of the kitchen, a stairwell slides subtly behind the family room\u2019s open bookshelf down into a lower level bar\/lounge, guest room, and office; previously, there had been no interior connection between the upstairs and downstairs. The lounge also features glass floor-to-ceiling sliding doors that open onto the lower deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SAW designed the rear landscape to be volumetric, defined by geometries shared with the architectural design. The wide upper deck connects to the stepped lower decks with a sharply defined, hefty cedar staircase and railing made from galvanized steel posts and stainless steel cable. The pool, located on the lowest deck, is seamless at one side\u2014a void in the landscape\u2014and yet a solid rectilinear block in the hillside from another. Below, terraces stagger as \u201clandscape rooms\u201d across the slope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe most critical building elements\u2014the steel and wood beams and columns\u2014break free of the constraints of the interior walls to carve out and define volumes of exterior space, framing views as pictorial scenes,\u201d says Aihara of the connection between architectural and landscape design across the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Foto-foto lainnya dapat dilihat di galeri bawah ini<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/i.ibb.co.com\/Q8xdFWp\/b.jpg\")
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