Placing form on wilderness is a radical act. The challenge was to design a house in one of the most spectacular natural settings on the Pacific Coast that would both respect and transform the land.
This three-bedroom vacation home, on Big Sur’s spectacular south coast, is anchored in the natural beauty and power of this California landscape.
The interior is a shelter, a refuge in contrast with the roughness and immense scale of the ocean and cliff.
A one-story concrete wing perpendicular to the house includes ground-floor bedrooms and a green roof: it is the boulder locking the house to the land. The lower volume, a double-cantilevered master bedroom suite, acts as a promontory above the ocean, offering breath-taking views from its floor-to-ceiling windows.
On the north, clear expanses of glass reveal ocean and coastline views; long strips of translucent channel glass dapple the light, playing on the sea’s shimmering surface.
The south façade is clad in copper, which wraps up the wall and over the roof. These overhangs protect windows and the front door from the harshness of sun and wind.
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