Feldman Architecture, Inc.

The Meadow Home

The Meadow Home
© Paul Dyer

THE MEADOW HOME

Feldman Architecture

CATEGORY
Houses

LOCATION
Portola Valley, United States

AREA
3970 ft²

YEAR
2016

PHOTOGRAPHS
Paul Dyer

MANUFACTURERS
Bosch, Fleetwood, Maytag, Brian's Cabinets, Five Twenty Two Industries, Freedom Concrete, Pollioni Design

INTERIORS
Zaharias Design

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
Lutsko Associates

BUILDER
Art of Construction

LIGHTING DESIGNER
Kim Cladas Lighting Design

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Strandberg Engineering

CIVIL ENGINEER
BKF Engineers

The Meadow Home
© Paul Dyer
The Meadow Home
© Paul Dyer

Text description provided by architect.

The design team was inspired by prominent views and beautiful slopes to build a structure on the landscape to minimize its massing on the originally undeveloped site.

The Meadow Home
© Paul Dyer
The Meadow Home
© Paul Dyer
The Meadow Home
© Paul Dyer
The Meadow Home
© Paul Dyer

The home’s L-shaped layout lies low on the brow of a grassy knoll, placed gently into the ground, matching the contours of the hill.

The home’s main wing boasts a spacious joint kitchen, dining room, and living area whose floor-to-ceiling glass doors and windows open to reveal an expansive patio.

The home is at once opened to the surrounding landscape, and views of the encompassing prairie, seamlessly merging interior and exterior spaces.

Splayed concrete walls, diminishing in height as they approach the house, direct the gaze to Windy Hill sitting on the western horizon.

The Meadow Home
© Paul Dyer
The Meadow Home
© Paul Dyer

The site moves unimpaired through and over the home; a green roof atop the garage acts as an extension of the surrounding prairie, while visually permeable rooms allow the meadow to continuously flow through the home.

The Meadow Home
© Paul Dyer
The Meadow Home
© Paul Dyer

The house’s cedar siding, stained a warm grey and complimented by the crisp horizontal lines of the black roof, further embeds the house in its natural surroundings and strikes a beautiful balance between rural and distinctly modern aesthetic.

The Meadow Home
© Paul Dyer
The Meadow Home
© Paul Dyer
The Meadow Home
© Paul Dyer


The Meadow Home
Floor plan
The Meadow Home
Floor plan


The Meadow Home
Site plan

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