The Sonoma weeHouse is a small, ultra-minimal home?based on Alchemy?s original weeHouse®?customized to meet specific style and finishing requirements of the client, Apple?s Director of Store Design, and an architect himself. It is composed of two minimalist open-sided boxes set on concrete plinths nestled on the edge of gnarled oaks.

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Architects: Alchemy

Location: Santa Rosa, CA, United States

Architect In Charge: Geoffrey C. Warner, AIA

Area: 970.0 ft2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Geoffrey Warner

Builder: Fidelity Builders, Inc.

Client And Design Collaborator: BJ Siegel

Mechanical Engineer: Jim Dunlevy, M&E Engineering
Interior Design: Alchemy

Specialty Steelwork: Alchemy

Concrete Work: Marr B. Olson

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From the architect. The Sonoma weeHouse is a small, ultra-minimal home?based on Alchemy?s original weeHouse®?customized to meet specific style and finishing requirements of the client, Apple?s Director of Store Design, and an architect himself. It is composed of two minimalist open-sided boxes set on concrete plinths nestled on the edge of gnarled oaks.

© Geoffrey Warner

© Geoffrey Warner

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