This home is approached from above as seen in the first photo. There are wonderful water views to the East and the South, a largish hotel like building up the hill to the West and the public road in the North, so we focused the views and the private exterior spaces to the South and the East. The house sits on a natural bench in a hillside and it was important to me that this group of forms be unified by a roof system that hovered over the assemblage and tied it together.
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View of the house from the approach to the North. You are looking South toward one of the water views.
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Looking Northerly from the Southwest corner. The kitchen bump out and garage shield the stone patio in the southeast corner from public building up the hill to the left (out of this shot.)
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Project south (on elevations etc.) is actually southeast, and that's the orientation of this end of the living room. The high windows will capture the morning sun and the screened porch on the southwest will shade this room in the afternoon.
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Dining space is focused on the southwesterly long view down the bay and the dining table forms a buffer between the kitchen and the living room.
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Screened porch on the southwestern corner has both primary views, shades the living space in the hot times of the day, shares a masonry mass with the living room fireplace, and is right off the dining space.
