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view of the residence from the pool area
Project Details
An 8,000 sf house on a flat, half-acre site a mile from Stanford University takes its cues from the urbanity of the community and the sophistication of its owners, who wanted a home suitable for displaying their contemporary art collection.
The house opens itself on all sides through a pinwheel plan that forms four distinct courtyards. Two two-story volumes are connected by taut horizontal planes that extend beyond the building envelope and are clad in gray Rhinezinc. The entrance is flanked by an axial wall of poured-in-place concrete, which continues indoors to become the north-south circulation spine of the house. Carved alcoves along its length house the couple’s unique ceramic collections.
The entrance court doubles as a terrace for a double-height dining room paneled in mahogany. The first volume, which contains the living room and the husband’s study on the north, shares another paved court extending out to the garden, and the kitchen a... more
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