Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Design

Creekside Residence

Creekside Residence
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CREEKSIDE RESIDENCE

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

PHOTOGRAPHS
Nic Lehoux

AREA
10200.0 m2

YEAR
2007

LOCATION
Woodside, United States

CATEGORY
Houses

Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux
Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux

Text description provided by architect.

Located in Woodside, California the Creekside Residence sits in its own natural world.

Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux
Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux

The site is in a meadow surrounded by western oaks, Douglas fir, and aromatic bays that border two creeks that never meet.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson focused the design of the residence around the surrounding landscape creating cantilevered roofs and views to the environment beyond.

Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux
Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux

This project received a 2009 Honor Award for Design AIA Pennsylvania and a 2009 Wood Design Honor Award. More photographs and sketches following the break.

The entry drive passes a pair of small outbuildings and leads to the meadow where the main house is arrayed along its southern and western edges.

Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux
Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux

Designed for a couple and their two children, the house displays their collection of modern art and mid-century furniture.

A glass pavilion with dining and living areas sits in the meadow, its cantilevered roof floats past the window wall, drawing one’s eye to the landscape beyond.

Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux
Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux

Cedar boxes house kitchen and sleeping spaces and contrast with the pavilion’s transparent nature.

Slipping into the pavilion is a library—a tall Douglas fir cabinet of book shelves with a great fireplace surrounded by glazing facing a forested glade.

Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux
Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux

Bedroom spaces forming the north wing are connected by a hallway of shifting angles, reminiscent of an alley in an old village and the random nature of the original outbuildings.

Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux
Creekside Residence
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Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux
Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux
Creekside Residence
© Nic Lehoux


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