Rau Haus / Feldman Construction
Textual content material description supplied by the architects. A pair with a youthful daughter making an attempt to depart city in search of extra room contacted Feldman Construction to design a model new home – a up to date, secluded residence with a loyal zone for web internet hosting family and associates. With a web site chosen with sweeping views over Coal Creek Open Space Defend, the group’s imaginative and prescient centered spherical completely immersing visitors in rolling inexperienced hills whereas offering a unusual, distant glimpse of the San Francisco Bay to the north. The design services spherical thoughtfully orienting non-public and non-private dwelling areas within the path of views whereas making a manner of privateness from the neighboring heaps above. The three,433 sq. foot L-shaped establishing footprint is gently tucked into the jap hillside, creating an enclosure for outdoor moments, and framing a wide array of views from indoor dwelling areas.
The volumes are rigorously articulated to attenuate disruption of views from the encircling properties. The primary wing runs north to south, rising vertically at a double-height kitchen and consuming space whereas visually connecting the first diploma to a study loft and bedrooms upstairs. Mild wells and clerestory dwelling home windows on the jap façade welcome morning gentle and provide peeks of greenery with out compromising privateness. A single-story form topped by a inexperienced roof stretches perpendicularly – mixing into the encircling panorama and making a multipurpose space at pool diploma for having fun with, exercising, and entertaining. The infinity pool acts as a threshold the place the manicured panorama merges into the native meadow-scape.
Bay views to the north are captured from the primary suite, and publicly from a view deck. It was important for the purchasers that this roof deck was publicly accessible with out compromising the privateness of their mattress room. Low-maintenance, sturdy provides define the material palette: exterior cement clads the second story, and Monterey Cypress siding, meant to local weather over time, elegantly connects the first diploma. The cement plaster and Cypress bars stack geometrically, mixing into the within – understated, fashionable, and clear materiality models the tone for the within and panorama moments.
At Rau Haus, a 6.24kW PV array provides the home with 9,777 kWh of renewable energy a yr, and two Heliodyne photograph voltaic panels serve a 119-gallon storage tank. The home is provided with all electrical indoor dwelling gear and {an electrical} heat-pump HVAC system, combined with passive heating and cooling strategies, work to take care of the home temperate all 12 months lengthy. The design makes use of deep overhangs and inset dwelling home windows to supply passive photograph voltaic shading, and thoughtfully positioned operable doorways, dwelling home windows, and skylights promote cross-ventilation in all habitable areas. Outdoors patios with varied ranges of shading all by way of the home allow for cosy use all through completely totally different events of the day. Domestically salvaged and milled Monterey cypress siding is in fact weathered with no additional finish, and all concrete is mixed with 30% fly ash to chop again the endeavor’s embodied carbon.
“This endeavor allowed us to craft an space of serenity, well-balanced with a design that creates horizontal and vertical connections inside and within the path of the panorama. It was expertly executed by the builder who crafted particulars and supplies connections with unbelievable care and precision,” Steven Stept, AIA, Problem Principal. – “Beneath the quiet design sensibility is a rigorous articulation of types and areas which is likely to be precisely detailed inside a tightly curated supplies palette. The house embraces the spirit of the positioning and models the stage for day-after-day life to unfold,” Anjali Iyer, LEED AP, Problem Architect.
