Location: Orinda, California, US
Year: 2016
Award
AIACC Residential Honor Award 2017
AIAEB Honor Award 2017
Architects: Faulkner Architects
Photographer: Joe Fletcher
In the shade of Orinda’s native oaks, the home produces an in intimate relationship with the surrounding trees. Their texture is reflected architecturally in a hyper-minimal palette of unfinished white oak on the walls, ceilings, and floor; the rhythm of these interior boards offers a controlled representation of the tree growth outside. Basalt flooring, white gypsum walls, and Cor-Ten steel panels provide a material counterpoint to the textured wood; the steel skin refreshes every time it rains. Developed in close collaboration with the clients are a series of innovative sustainability features that bring the mechanical and electrical systems to net zero.
Faulkner Architects
All images courtesy of © Joe Fletcher Photography
Faulkner Architects
Truckee, CA 96161
(530) 582-74002115 4th Street #A
Berkeley, CA 94710
(510) 704-8400
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