The Sea Ranch rests about 100 miles north of San Francisco on the rugged Sonoma County coastline. This area is steep in California history which has been occupied by the Pomo people, loggers, fur trappers, gold miners, sheep farmers and in recent years, vacationers. The Sea Ranch is a coastal development with modern vernacular structures that follow strict design guidelines. The houses resemble barns clad in wood siding that blend into the native landscaping. Recently we finished a couple houses for some very happy clients up there. So we took an office trip awhile back to visit and here are some photos on one of the projects. The other project might be in the April ‘08 issue of Dwell which we really want to happen. As you can tell from the first photo, my wife is thrilled out of her mind. -MR
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And to keep it surf related. Here's a photo that was taken up the road in the town of Gualala. The large surf poured over the beach and into the lagoon forming a nice waist high a-frame.
Here's our firms website to check out the other project we've completed in the past.
http://www.mdarch.net/
2 comments:
Nice shots. I think my favorite thing about the house is that deck.
Are you the architect? Very attractive house. My wife and I are loving the modern residential burst, at least to the extent that individuals and groups of individuals are using it to express their taste in houses as a reaction to the "mcmansion" explosion. We're building our own modern cabin on the coast in Washington State which I am trying to blog, but am hopelessly behind. It started out as drawings on napkins and graph paper, a brief dialogue with modernist Greg Lavardera (a Dwell "nice modernist"), and is now feathering up out of the dune like a winter wave nearing the bar.
Like your design, the potentially inorganic sanitariness of some modern design is avoided by including healthy helpings of wood (clear cedar cardecking over glu-lams for the ceiling, cork plank flooring, and salvage/rescued mohagany veneer interior doors).
I enjoy your blog and thanks to Cabinessence for linking you. I hope you don't mind if I add a link to yours on my growing list of good, surfy blogs.
David, Seattle
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