Ron Blunt Photography
Beach style dining room photo in DC Metro

Full Circle Photography
Example of a mountain style kitchen design in Philadelphia

Minimalist light wood floor and beige floor family room photo in Phoenix with a music area, white walls, a standard fireplace and a concrete fireplace

Homeowner (Private)
Deck - rustic deck idea

Large elegant brown two-story brick gable roof photo in Dallas

Full Circle Photography
Mountain style bedroom photo in Philadelphia

A simple gabled form clad in cedar shingles blends seamlessly into the wooded setting, balancing modern design with natural materials.

Joe Fletcher Atop a ridge in the Santa Lucia mountains of Carmel, California, an oak tree stands elevated above the fog and wrapped at its base in this ranch retreat. The weekend home’s design grew around the 100-year-old Valley Oak to form a horseshoe-shaped house that gathers ridgeline views of Oak, Madrone, and Redwood groves at its exterior and nestles around the tree at its center. The home’s orientation offers both the shade of the oak canopy in the courtyard and the sun flowing into the great room at the house’s rear façades. This modern take on a traditional ranch home offers contemporary materials and landscaping to a classic typology. From the main entry in the courtyard, one enters the home’s great room and immediately experiences the dramatic westward views across the 70 foot pool at the house’s rear. In this expansive public area, programmatic needs flow and connect - from the kitchen, whose windows face the courtyard, to the dining room, whose doors slide seamlessly into walls to create an outdoor dining pavilion. The primary circulation axes flank the internal courtyard, anchoring the house to its site and heightening the sense of scale by extending views outward at each of the corridor’s ends. Guest suites, complete with private kitchen and living room, and the garage are housed in auxiliary wings connected to the main house by covered walkways. Building materials including pre-weathered corrugated steel cladding, buff limestone walls, and large aluminum apertures, and the interior palette of cedar-clad ceilings, oil-rubbed steel, and exposed concrete floors soften the modern aesthetics into a refined but rugged ranch home.

vanziffle architects
Living room - mid-sized contemporary formal and open concept light wood floor living room idea in Toronto with white walls, no tv, a standard fireplace and a tile fireplace

West Coast modern art studio with garage below and rooftop deck above.
Garage - contemporary detached two-car garage idea in Vancouver

Updated Entrance to Residence, original garage is now a play room. Original parapet wall at deck removed and replaced with metal railings. Ground floor exterior walls are painted brick, second floor walls are clad in cedar. New windows and doors.

The “Cube” is a Bespoke Design by Award Winning Architect Randy Bens. This unique cubist home, is clad in premium clear red cedar siding & natural stone. Contemporary & open concept living

Full Circle Photography
Mountain style dining room photo in Philadelphia

Large upward tilting overhangs provide sun control and frame views out. Mix of materials, cedar, concrete, stucco and metal make up the exterior. 3-Car garage doors fit flush with each other and are clad in bronze panels. Russell Abraham Photography

photo by Seed Studio, editing by TR PhotoStudio
Patio - mid-sized contemporary backyard gravel full sun patio idea in San Francisco with a fire pit

Large elegant brown two-story brick gable roof photo in Dallas

Dark stained cedar siding clads the modern master suite addition, and the rectangular addition creates a private porch at the exterior of this modern renovation.

The owners requested that their home harmonize with the spirit of the surrounding Colorado mountain setting and enhance their outdoor recreational lifestyle - while reflecting their contemporary architectural tastes. The site was burdened with a myriad of strict design criteria enforced by the neighborhood covenants and architectural review board. Creating a distinct design challenge, the covenants included a narrow interpretation of a “mountain style” home which established predetermined roof pitches, glazing percentages and material palettes - at direct odds with the client‘s vision of a flat-roofed, glass, “contemporary” home. Our solution finds inspiration and opportunities within the site covenant’s strict definitions. It promotes and celebrates the client’s outdoor lifestyle and resolves the definition of a contemporary “mountain style” home by reducing the architecture to its most basic vernacular forms and relying upon local materials. The home utilizes a simple base, middle and top that echoes the surrounding mountains and vegetation. The massing takes its cues from the prevalent lodgepole pine trees that grow at the mountain’s high altitudes. These pine trees have a distinct growth pattern, highlighted by a single vertical trunk and a peaked, densely foliated growth zone above a sparse base. This growth pattern is referenced by placing the wood-clad body of the home at the second story above an open base composed of wood posts and glass. A simple peaked roof rests lightly atop the home - visually floating above a triangular glass transom. The home itself is neatly inserted amongst an existing grove of lodgepole pines and oriented to take advantage of panoramic views of the adjacent meadow and Continental Divide beyond. The main functions of the house are arranged into public and private areas and this division is made apparent on the home’s exterior. Two large roof forms, clad in pre-patinated zinc, are separated by a sheltering central deck - which signals the main entry to the home. At this connection, the roof deck is opened to allow a cluster of aspen trees to grow – further reinforcing nature as an integral part of arrival. Outdoor living spaces are provided on all levels of the house and are positioned to take advantage of sunrise and sunset moments. The distinction between interior and exterior space is blurred via the use of large expanses of glass. The dry stacked stone base and natural cedar cladding both reappear within the home’s interior spaces. This home offers a unique solution to the client’s requests while satisfying the design requirements of the neighborhood covenants. The house provides a variety of indoor and outdoor living spaces that can be utilized in all seasons. Most importantly, the house takes its cues directly from its natural surroundings and local building traditions to become a prototype solution for the “modern mountain house”. Overview Ranch Creek Ranch Winter Park, Colorado Completion Date October, 2007 Services Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture