Castle Black at Sea Ranch / Klopf Architecture
True artists inspired by socially relevant modern design, architect Geoff Campen and designer Diana Ruiz designed a new minimal, modern, open home they would call their own.
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True artists inspired by socially relevant modern design, architect Geoff Campen and designer Diana Ruiz designed a new minimal, modern, open home they would call their own.
At this compact Sonoma concrete guesthouse, board-formed concrete sculpted into austere volumes carves into dry earth, suspending guest rooms over a plateau’s edge.
Vancouver Courtyard House is a study in scale and proportion. The central three-sided courtyard serves to introduce light and air into the center of a relatively long and narrow floor plan, effectively introducing a third ‘middle yard’ to the otherwise typical front and rear yards.
To integrate the Annisquam River House more fully with its natural surround, we took our client’s suggestion to plant a tree which extends up though the second-floor deck.
The House U is built on a rectangular base inside which is extruded a rectangular space, giving to the house a sort of large exterior room open to the sky, protected from winds and vis-à-vis.
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Beyond the monolithic concrete and cedar facade, one passes through an alfresco forecourt before entering the home’s main level—essentially one L-shape great room