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- ACLA
- Nic Le Houx & ACLA
Working with BCJ Architecture, ACLA developed a garden and landscape for a family’s new residence in Los Altos, California. The creative and energetic program for the site included a custom wood-fired bread oven, outdoor kitchen, garage workshop and outdoor extension, orchard, vegetable garden, custom boulder fountain and wildlife garden.
As a gesture of community spirit, a fruit orchard set in terraces of gravel occupies the front yard, where fruit picking is encouraged. Centered on a large, existing Japanese maple tree, corten steps and low retaining walls lead up to front entry.
As a gesture of community spirit, a fruit orchard set in terraces of gravel occupies the front yard, where fruit picking is encouraged. Centered on a large, existing Japanese maple tree, corten steps and low retaining walls lead up to front entry.
The long swimming pool anchors the main residence to a small guest house, set within the birch meadow of the rear garden. A continuous, low concrete wall houses the bread oven and outdoor kitchen and offers a screen to the productive gardens beyond. A drought-tolerant meadow with birch trees acts as the foreground and connects visually to the extensive mature trees in the neighboring yards.
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