Dry Creek Poolhouse

Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography

DRY CREEK POOLHOUSE

Ro I Rockett Design

GENERAL CONTRACTOR
JMH Consultants, Jon Hallengren

MANUFACTURERS
All Weather Architectural Aluminum, Benjamin Moore, Caesarstone, Doug Mockett & Company, Sikkens

CIVIL ENGINEER
Kelder Engineering, Kurt T. Kelder

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Berkeley Structural Design

AREA
301 m²

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
United States

CATEGORY
Houses

Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography
Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography

Text description provided by architect.

Anchored by an inventive reuse of local materials on a constrained lot in a beautiful Sonoma County landscape, this project started as a country retreat and evolved into a full-time residence.

Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography
Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography

The desired program added a pool, poolhouse, outdoor living area, gardens, bocce court and guest arrival with overflow parking.

The property was long and narrow, hugging a busy roadway but situated to look beyond the constraints to spectacular vistas of rolling vineyards and classic coastal California ridgelines beyond.

Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography
Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography

The budget was tight and the aspirations were large. The design raises the pool high on the prop-erty and cuts the pool house into the hillside – allowing the horizon of the pool edge to edit the view to the road below.

Nestled into the hill with its back to the trees, the new, earthen ground plane acts as a primitive plinth that supports a rustic enclosure.

The prime program of the pool house is wrapped in grape stakes gathered from the property and re-sawn to operate as a shroud to the private innards of the building.

Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography
Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography
Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography

This cladding provides solid walls where necessary and opens to the view where desirable.

The modest interior footprint seamlessly expands to the terrace beyond with the help of a rough-sawn trellis that floats overhead, providing needed shade in the hottest times of day.

Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography
Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography

Conceived as a rustic retreat for a couple of city dwellers, the property quickly became a full-time respite that lives and breathes the Sonoma County lifestyle.

Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography
Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography


Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography
Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography
Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography


Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography
Dry Creek Poolhouse
© Adam Rouse Photography


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