6052 LICHAU RD
Since this house’s family is a close one, the kids’ bedrooms are multi-purpose, one is the movie watching room as well, and the other is the library and community office. By making spaces that are usually single purpose into multipurpose spaces, a relatively compact house can provide more functions and bring people into each other’s lives in the process.
Mom’s room, however, is uniquely hers and unique single purpose. It has a bathroom suite that is designed to have all the delightful fixtures of a spa, and all the elegance too, but within a compact area. A space of purity and purpose is created for each activity, so that the space of showering is truly only for showering – there are no toothbrushes, no toilet paper, just stone, glass, hot water, towels, and so much steam you can’t see your hand in front of you. A unique feature the client asked for was a fully retractable skylight above her bed for stargazing in comfort, you got it.
The building is stretched along the hillside so that each floor can have large openings to face the valley view. This narrow footprint provides opportunity for effective cross ventilation and very effective floor plans that minimize circulation spaces, and by stepping each floor backwards we honor the hill and create terraces in the process. For privacy, and to elevate the landscape to the level of the building, vertical gardens surround the decks and connect the house to the land it emerges from.
3729 DEAUVILLE PL – FIRE REBUILD
Our project brief was to create a new 4 bedroom home to replace a home destroyed in the 2017 wildfires. We chose to position the new home squarely on the surviving segment of old foundation, respecting footprint of the previous house.
The main living space offers a restrained, modern space that can flow in and out of doors, favoring a dramatic view across the valley to the west. The master suite also provides direct access to the rear deck, and supporting spaces are arrayed on the lower floor.