David Simister Architect
tel 07976 636921
  • Home
  • Housing and Houses
  • Master-plan and Concept
  • Design Advice
  • Blog

Sonoma WeeHouse

30/11/2018

1 Comment

 
​https://www.weehouse.com/wee/
​

The Sonoma WeeHouse is, in fact, not one but two houses—one main house and one guest house—on a hillside site in Santa Rosa, Calif., just north and west of the vineyard-rich region that gave it its name. These small, impeccably detailed, minimalist, weathering steel-clad boxes were designed by St. Paul, Minn.–based firm Alchemy Architects for a client that knows a thing or two about fine-detailing and minimalism: Apple’s senior design director of real estate and development, himself an architect who collaborated on the design.

The structures were designed as part of Alchemy’s WeeHouse system of modular, prefabricated houses. The 640-square-foot main structure, which features an ipe-lined interior and a 9-foot-tall sliding glass door on either side, was assembled in Oregon in two parts: a 16-foot by 40-foot module and a bolt-on porch, which were each shipped to the site largely complete. The 330-square-foot guest house, a single unit, followed suit. The steel-framed modules were then set on concrete plinths on site, ready to occupy. The porch cantilevers out over the hillside, offering views of the valley below, and it was this striking profile that caught the attention of the jury. “It’s so tiny, but quite dramatic,” David Baker said.
​
With such small footprints, not a single inch can be wasted. The main house features a whitewashed oak bed in the middle of the structures, with the frame forming the bedroom walls, and privacy screens pocket into the bathroom ceiling in lieu of traditional swinging doors. In the guest house, a built-in oak wardrobe serves as storage, and the wall of the bathroom. But throughout, the minimal palette is used to great effect. “I love the use of natural materials,” R. Michael Graham said.
1 Comment
www.aucklandgaragedoors.co.nz link
14/10/2020 01:20:38 pm

Basically this blog has been sharing us a lot of thoughts on garage doors and making the wonderful manufactured doors. I am very happy and getting the interesting techniques on door installation.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    This is stuff I like, old and new, that I hope you do too.

    Archives

    July 2020
    May 2020
    February 2020
    July 2019
    June 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    August 2018
    June 2018
    March 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly