Structure agency AB Design Studio has remodelled and expanded a Nineteen Fifties house that sits on a boulder-studded property in California.
Santa Barbara’s AB Design Studio was tasked with remodelling and enlarging a 1954 home that was in disrepair, together with a subpar basis product of stone rubble. Home of Honey, a studio within the LA space, served as the inside designer.
The Quarry Home is situated in Montecito, a city in central California that lies between the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Ynez Mountains. The one-storey house sits inside a former rock quarry, therefore the undertaking’s title.
Whereas the house’s authentic architect is unknown, there are rumours it was designed by Lutah Maria Riggs – the primary feminine architect in California to be named a fellow of the AIA. Within the Nineteen Fifties, Riggs designed a close-by temple for the Vendanta Society, which drew many bohemians to the realm.
Honouring the realm’s artistic and non secular heritage was a guiding issue for the design staff, together with retaining the massive boulders that dot the property.
“The home displays the creative and Zen qualities of the realm’s previous – a spot as soon as inhabited by a collective of bohemian poets, writers and artists – by sustaining authentic parts and reusing stones discovered on-site,” the staff stated.
To make more room, the structure studio prolonged one finish of the home to carry a main suite. Simply past, it added a indifferent guesthouse referred to as the Dwelling Room Pavilion.
Collectively, the buildings whole 2,435 sq. toes (226 sq. metres) and wrap round a newly constructed swimming pool.
For the facades, the staff opted for vertical slats of ebonised redwood and darkish steel. Aluminium was used for home windows and doorways, and standing-seam steel was used for the roof. Web site partitions are product of stone and board-formed concrete.
Supplies had been chosen for his or her capability to withstand hearth.
“The residence is situated in a high-fire space, and all exterior supplies had been constructed to adjust to California’s wildland city interface necessities,” the staff stated.
Inside the principle construction, there’s a division between private and non-private areas.
Bedrooms are arrayed alongside a hallway operating by way of the centre of the house.
The general public areas – a kitchen, eating space and front room – are discovered on the west finish of the plan, the place notable options embody a marble island and a hearth encompass product of cold-rolled metal.
“The dwelling options expertly detailed and well-appointed interiors, together with brilliant rooms with birch-veneered ceilings, customized cabinetry and woodwork, and hand-selected furnishings,” the staff stated.
Within the guesthouse, the staff positioned a bed room, rest room, front room and an workplace. In each buildings, giant home windows provide immersive views of the encompassing oak forest.
The undertaking additionally concerned main modifications to the panorama, together with the removing of a rear driveway, which allowed for the addition of a fireplace pit and garden.
The staff additionally expanded an current deck, which now wraps across the complete home.
Different properties in central California embody a Santa Barbara residence by Shubin Donaldson that has a wooden-screen exterior and a Carmel Valley dwelling by Sagan Piechota Structure that sits amongst old-growth oak bushes.
The pictures is by Jason Rick.
Challenge credit:
Architect: AB Design Studio
Workforce: Josh Blumer (principal), Glen Deisler (undertaking supervisor), Clay Aurell, Robert Pester, Joel Herrera, Amy Tripp
Normal contractor: J Weir Masterworks, Jed Hirsch Normal Constructing Contractor
MEP: Mechanical Engineering Consultants
Inside designer: Home Of Honey
Panorama architect: Progressive Environmental Industries
Structural engineer: Darkmoon Constructing Design and Engineering