Project Details
- Project Name
- Sonoma Residence
- Location
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Sonoma ,United States
- Architect
- Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects
- Project Types
- Single Family
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 3,890 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2015
- Shared by
- Symone Garvett
- Team
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Eric Haesloop
Mark Hoffman
Jerome Christensen
Sara Dewey
Jim Murphy & Associates, Builder, Builder
- Consultants
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Structural Engineer: Fratessa, Forbes & Wong,null: Meline Engineering,Civil Engineer: Adobe Associates,Geotechnical Engineer: Bauer Associates,General Contractor: Jim Murphy & Associates,Landscape Architect: SWA
- Project Status
- Built
2017 Builder's Choice & Custom Home Design Awards
Custom Home Less Than 5,000 Square Feet: Merit
A 3,890-square-foot home anchors a new complex of structures—including a guesthouse and a carport—in a 22-acre oak meadow in California’s wine country. Designed by San Francisco–based firm Turnbull Griffin Haesloop to enhance the client’s indoor–outdoor summer living, the house is configured as a low-lying L-shaped mass with a thin roof floating above the public living space.
The tallest portion of the home shelters an outdoor living room with a monumental cast-in-place fireplace bookended with a more domestically scaled stove and shelves at the opposite end of the large volume. The outdoor space acts as a threshold, drawing visitors in from the car court, through the home, and into the adjacent meadow—where a pond-front pool house and pool sit within the landscape to complete the sequence.
The house achieves net-zero status through passive cooling strategies, including a white roof above the living room, a green roof above the lower-ceiling spaces, closed-cell insulation throughout, and operable windows shielded by wide overhangs. Its private spaces—which include four bedrooms in the main house and a fifth in the pool house—are simply detailed with built-in amenities rendered in warm wood finishes. The site’s existing oak trees were preserved, and lend an air of tradition and history to the new structures, and the freestanding pool house features shade trellises that recall the main house’s outdoor living room at a more intimate scale. The complex’s spaces give residents and visitors well-framed views that establish one’s place in the broader landscape. — E.K.
“There is a sense of lightness to this project. The tectonic choices and how they integrate with the solid masses are particularly delicate.” - Juror Timothy Lock
Project Description
From the architects. The site, a meadow dotted with magnificent oaks, gently slopes down to a spring fed pond creating an unusually lush landscape. The owners requested that the house be designed for outdoor/indoor summer living. They wanted guests to have easy access to the pool and pond beyond. The design frames the verdant oak meadow and pond within the larger landscape. A thin floating roof reaches across the primary outdoor living space to frame the entry and create a dramatic threshold from the car court to the pond beyond. The bedrooms, kitchen and support spaces are housed under a living roof that visually links the house to the surrounding landscape. The pool house extends the outdoor living with generous shade trellises and includes a playroom, changing room and guestroom as well as space for the solar hot water and pool equipment. A fire pit and small dock further extend the outdoor living experience to the pond’s edge. The project is designed to be a net-zero home. Passive cooling strategies, including a cool roof, living roof, heavy insulation, operable windows and large overhangs, allow the house to remain comfortable without the use of air conditioning. Photovoltaic powered electric heat pumps provide hot water for in-slab radiant heat and solar hot water panels provide hot water for the pool.