Two Stellar Sonoma Homes Shine in New Architecture Book

Right after 20 a long time of building urban, suburban and rural residences, San Francisco-based Feldman Architecture has launched a guide showcasing options from their award-profitable overall body of work.

The book, named Immersed, The California Properties of Feldman Architecture, features two Sonoma County houses — one in Healdsburg and one particular in Sonoma — that exemplify architect Jonathan Feldman’s light-weight-on-the-land technique and his eyesight to build web page-sensitive residences, which, by means of the use of neighborhood and pure constructing elements, mix with the surrounding landscape. Other magnificent houses in the e-book include a Carmel household with a “caterpillar roof” that mimic the hillside in the track record and a higher-art Santa Cruz surf property cladded in locally-sourced reclaimed lumber.

Feldman and his associates strategy new projects as “observers and editors,” getting inspiration from the landscape and what currently exists on a home whilst cautiously building additions to the setting without having radically shifting it. For the Healdsburg property featured in the book, they took design and style cues from a cabin on the hillside property. The house was then situated to optimize sights, although its condition was informed by the encompassing landscape so that the household would blend into the hillside setting.

The Healdsburg household is smooth and modern day with black steel elements but, in Feldman’s text, the glance is “softened” by bleached walnut ceilings and plaster partitions. It makes wonderful use of the indoor-outside style development that is continuing to have a big instant in California. 4 enormous glass doorways on just about every aspect of the home roll up warehouse-design, or like garage doors, and remodel the dwelling into an open-air pavilion. Concrete floors indoors prolong to the outdoor on the terrace, and close to the pool and fire pit.

The Sonoma property was conceived as a “garden pavilion” — “a straightforward and modern shell that directly immerses its inhabitants” in the surroundings, in accordance to Feldman. The householders are avid gardeners, so the layout was meant to showcase their backyard garden, enabling it to be observed from the indoors by way of a wall of glass in the entrance and on the sides of the property. This wall of windows also can make the 2,000-square-foot home come to feel a lot more expansive. Like the Healdsburg residence, this assets is present day and smooth but the search is softened by dark slate grays in the concrete and Douglas fir accents.

Click on by the above gallery for a appear at the two Sonoma County attributes.

“Immersed, The California Homes of Feldman Architecture” is available online and a community booksellers. $75, oropublishers.com.