Mocabee House / Gustave Carlson Design
The Mocabee house is set like a stage that overlooks the orchard, the Monterey pine trees to the South, the neighbors sheep, and a distant Mayacamas Mountain and vineyard view.
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The Mocabee house is set like a stage that overlooks the orchard, the Monterey pine trees to the South, the neighbors sheep, and a distant Mayacamas Mountain and vineyard view.
Hila Israelevitz, one of the owners of the Israelevitz Architects Office, designed an exciting, powerful residential space for them that lends dignity to the natural resources surrounding them as well as natural materials, volume and dimensions.
A house for a family of 5 was requested on the sloping land. The initial proposal was to build a multi-storey building to regain the vista toward the ocean.
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