MINER ROAD
Faulkner Architects
LOCATION
San Francisco, CA, United States
CATEGORY
Residential › Private House
The home, which recently won an AIACC Honor Award, is located on an ex-urban infill site that covers almost eight acres of a Bay Area suburb at the base of the Oakland Hills, draped in rich green foliage and native oak trees.
Dense observation of the landscape, climate, culture, and existing uses and patterns of the site were worked out in conversation with the client’s mission to mitigate environmental challenges; Faulkner Architects brings together site and home both phenomenologically in the design and technologically through sustainable features and practices.
Technically a remodel, the house utilized the footprint of the existing house as a basis for a new floor plan.
An existing fireplace was wrapped in concrete to serve as a major structural element anchoring the new architecture.
This avoided additional grading and left the hillside open and natural.
It also placed the new home directly under the shade of the old oaks, in intimate relationship with the trees surrounding it.