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Photographer: Jock Pottle
Design and Construction Documents: 2000-01
Design Team: Robert Price, Elyse Lau
This addition was designed as a set piece toboth oppose and reflect on a conventional raised ranch dwelling. It is set in the back of the house, to exploit a tranquil yard that abutsa nature preserve. The addition presents two highly glazed facades, one to the north thatfaces only grass, trees and sky, and one to the east that captures the distant mountain view. The eastern facade is adjacent to a parking court and the new entry to the house, where a wood trellis was implemented to both diffuse the near view and filter the morning light into
the home. The existing house contains most of the bedrooms, bathrooms and utility rooms for a family of six. The new construction creates a rural ?loft?, one large open space for living, dining and kitchen, with a wood-burning stove and intimate reading and piano-playing alcoves. The loft opens onto a stone patio for warm weather dining. The addition, in combination with the existing house and a separate garage structure, forms a natural courtyard from which the new entry is made. One crosses a wooden bridge over a narrow river stone moat that is the source for the topiary that will climb the trellis. Inside, the stair climbs to emerge within the new loft on the upper level. The roof is pitched up towards the northern view, creating a ?butterfly? against the opposing pitch of the existing house. The valley between the roofs collects the rainwater that will be diverted through a series of scuppers and chains down to the moat, effecting a serene sound. Supporting the new roof is an oriented strand parallam beam structure that creates a ?natural? long span framework to organize the space.
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