Forty-One Oaks / Field Architecture
There are forty-one oaks within this Portola Valley lot. They lie within the boundaries, dotting the rolling hills and shading the ground with their canopy. The clients, a couple retired from corporate careers and now immersed in their passion for photography, wanted the home to feel like a continuation of the landscape; they hired Field Architecture, a firm with a long history of designing homes that act in conversation with their site.
© Steve Goldband
Architects: Field Architecture
Location: Portola Valley, United States
Area: 3200.0 ft2
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Steve Goldband, John Merkl
© Steve Goldband
Text description provided by the architects. There are forty-one oaks within this Portola Valley lot. They lie within the boundaries, dotting the rolling hills and shading the ground with their canopy. The clients, a couple retired from corporate careers and now immersed in their passion for photography, wanted the home to feel like a continuation of the landscape; they hired Field Architecture, a firm with a long history of designing homes that act in conversation with their site.
© John Merkl
Jess Field sees the landscape?s orientation as ?an invitation? from the oaks. The architectural response was to create a series of pavilions, including a guest house, tennis court, and Zen garden. Together, they allow for a porosity that connects the oaks with only the lightest of ...
© Steve Goldband
Architects: Field Architecture
Location: Portola Valley, United States
Area: 3200.0 ft2
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Steve Goldband, John Merkl
© Steve Goldband
Text description provided by the architects. There are forty-one oaks within this Portola Valley lot. They lie within the boundaries, dotting the rolling hills and shading the ground with their canopy. The clients, a couple retired from corporate careers and now immersed in their passion for photography, wanted the home to feel like a continuation of the landscape; they hired Field Architecture, a firm with a long history of designing homes that act in conversation with their site.
© John Merkl
Jess Field sees the landscape?s orientation as ?an invitation? from the oaks. The architectural response was to create a series of pavilions, including a guest house, tennis court, and Zen garden. Together, they allow for a porosity that connects the oaks with only the lightest of ...
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