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Creekside Residence
Creekside Residence
Woodside, CA, United States
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Creekside Residence
Woodside, CA, United States
Project Featured on Feb 24, 2015
Type
YEAR
2007
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
Built to take full advantage of its natural surroundings and incorporate the outdoors with indoors, the Creekside Residence has a bright, warm quality, the result of careful siting and material expression. The architecture highlights the interplay between dramatic scales and intimate details. A glass pavilion sits in a meadow while loosely placed, articulated wooden rooms recall the agrarian nature of the property.
The dwelling is located on a secluded, wooded site, bound by two steep-banked creeks. The house and associated buildings are placed in a meadow of native wildflowers, surrounded by exceptional specimen redwood trees, Douglas fir, aromatic bay laurels and anchored by a legend oak growing out of the creek bank. A roof plane floats over the building elements, drawing the eye to the landscape. The house reveals itself quietly, a subtle presence within the forest.
Built for a couple with a strong interest in modern design, the house is comprised of a series of clean, simple volumes. The central space is an open, airy pavilion that opens onto the natural landscape and displays a significant collection of modern art and vintage furniture. The pavilion’s tall glass walls and pivoting glass doors, capped by a 12-foot-deep roof overhang, lend the space a dramatic scale. This main space intersects with a kitchen to the east and library to the west. A series of smaller, more intimate rooms hosting the more private functions of the house extend from the pavilion, rambling along the forested creek edge.
The house’s materials are sympathetic to and complementary of their natural surroundings. Cedar siding is used extensively as a cladding material. Slender stainless steel columns supporting the main pavilion accentuate the lightness of this space, helping the roof appear to float. Steel sash windows in the library, kitchen and bedrooms break down the scale of the larger volumes. Similar attention was paid to the intimate scales of the residence, through the creation of many small details to be enjoyed every day. Examples include custom-designed door handles formed to the user’s hand, a sink hollowed from a single block of stone and a custom Japanese-style soaking tub.
The dwelling is located on a secluded, wooded site, bound by two steep-banked creeks. The house and associated buildings are placed in a meadow of native wildflowers, surrounded by exceptional specimen redwood trees, Douglas fir, aromatic bay laurels and anchored by a legend oak growing out of the creek bank. A roof plane floats over the building elements, drawing the eye to the landscape. The house reveals itself quietly, a subtle presence within the forest.
Built for a couple with a strong interest in modern design, the house is comprised of a series of clean, simple volumes. The central space is an open, airy pavilion that opens onto the natural landscape and displays a significant collection of modern art and vintage furniture. The pavilion’s tall glass walls and pivoting glass doors, capped by a 12-foot-deep roof overhang, lend the space a dramatic scale. This main space intersects with a kitchen to the east and library to the west. A series of smaller, more intimate rooms hosting the more private functions of the house extend from the pavilion, rambling along the forested creek edge.
The house’s materials are sympathetic to and complementary of their natural surroundings. Cedar siding is used extensively as a cladding material. Slender stainless steel columns supporting the main pavilion accentuate the lightness of this space, helping the roof appear to float. Steel sash windows in the library, kitchen and bedrooms break down the scale of the larger volumes. Similar attention was paid to the intimate scales of the residence, through the creation of many small details to be enjoyed every day. Examples include custom-designed door handles formed to the user’s hand, a sink hollowed from a single block of stone and a custom Japanese-style soaking tub.
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