House Ocho in Santa Lucia Preserve, CA | Feldman Architects
Architect: Jonathan Feldman AIA, Feldman Architecture, LLP
Project team: Yat Sun Ng & Tom McElroy
Project: Vacation Home / “Family Compound”
Location: Santa Lucia Preserve, Carmel Valley, CA
Engineer: Mike Hicks, Fulcrum
Completed: September, 2004
House Size: 270 m2
Garage: 50 m2
Lot Size: 49 Acres, of which 47 Acres are protected by an environmental easement
Photos: Paul Dyer
“Located in Carmel’s Santa Lucia mountains, this 3000-square-foot home is half the size of other homes in this development, itself a significant achievement in sustainable design. Simply built, elegantly detailed, and well-proportioned and oriented outdoor spaces provide the amenities of a larger building. Passive solar heating and “living roofs” made this project energy efficient and elegant. The jury commented: a simple material palette demonstrates modesty in an immodest world.”
From The Architect:
Located on a nature preserve in the beautiful Santa Lucia Mountains, this home’s stunning site consists of oak forest and step meadows, which strongly contained and inspired our unconventional design. In order to reduce the ompact of our building, we sank them into the ground and planted the overhanging roofs with tall native grasses.
We also divided the spaces into a series of “pavilions” to break up the house’s overall mass. After passing through an entry grove, visitors can see distant view in-between and over the various building elements. As they are drawn into the widening view, they lare led down from the tree-lined ridge to a large terrace that serves as an outdoor living room for the house.
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