View of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA long table with leather bar stools. On the left, a red kitchen. On the right, large doors that open up to chairs on a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island with barstools on one side, and a red kitchen facade behind it. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island detail with zoom in on two barstool seats. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLit white brick fireplace with metal tube chimney extending up through the next floor. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaTop of a red oak staircase. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaOld barn turned into modern home overlooking the yard with two Adirondack lawn chairs. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, California

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

View of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA long table with leather bar stools. On the left, a red kitchen. On the right, large doors that open up to chairs on a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island with barstools on one side, and a red kitchen facade behind it. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island detail with zoom in on two barstool seats. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLit white brick fireplace with metal tube chimney extending up through the next floor. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaTop of a red oak staircase. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaOld barn turned into modern home overlooking the yard with two Adirondack lawn chairs. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaInterior of a bathroom with long trough sink and vanity. An open door leads to the living room then outside to a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA living room with sectional sofas surrounding a coffee table. Behind the sofa is an open expanse of land and mountain views both able to be walked into and behind floor length windows. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaSerrated metal roofing, with wooden paneled facade and exposed lightbulb. Inside is two long dining tables, a kitchen, and living room. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaAdirondack chairs on a patio overlooking a pool and forest landscape. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, California

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

View of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA long table with leather bar stools. On the left, a red kitchen. On the right, large doors that open up to chairs on a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island with barstools on one side, and a red kitchen facade behind it. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island detail with zoom in on two barstool seats. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLit white brick fireplace with metal tube chimney extending up through the next floor. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaTop of a red oak staircase. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, California

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

Aptos RetreatBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA long table with leather bar stools. On the left, a red kitchen. On the right, large doors that open up to chairs on a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island with barstools on one side, and a red kitchen facade behind it. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island detail with zoom in on two barstool seats. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLit white brick fireplace with metal tube chimney extending up through the next floor. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaTop of a red oak staircase. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaOld barn turned into modern home overlooking the yard with two Adirondack lawn chairs. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaInterior of a bathroom with long trough sink and vanity. An open door leads to the living room then outside to a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA living room with sectional sofas surrounding a coffee table. Behind the sofa is an open expanse of land and mountain views both able to be walked into and behind floor length windows. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaSerrated metal roofing, with wooden paneled facade and exposed lightbulb. Inside is two long dining tables, a kitchen, and living room. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, California

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

View of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA long table with leather bar stools. On the left, a red kitchen. On the right, large doors that open up to chairs on a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island with barstools on one side, and a red kitchen facade behind it. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island detail with zoom in on two barstool seats. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLit white brick fireplace with metal tube chimney extending up through the next floor. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaTop of a red oak staircase. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaOld barn turned into modern home overlooking the yard with two Adirondack lawn chairs. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaInterior of a bathroom with long trough sink and vanity. An open door leads to the living room then outside to a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA living room with sectional sofas surrounding a coffee table. Behind the sofa is an open expanse of land and mountain views both able to be walked into and behind floor length windows. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaSerrated metal roofing, with wooden paneled facade and exposed lightbulb. Inside is two long dining tables, a kitchen, and living room. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, California

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

View of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA long table with leather bar stools. On the left, a red kitchen. On the right, large doors that open up to chairs on a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island with barstools on one side, and a red kitchen facade behind it. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island detail with zoom in on two barstool seats. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLit white brick fireplace with metal tube chimney extending up through the next floor. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaTop of a red oak staircase. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaOld barn turned into modern home overlooking the yard with two Adirondack lawn chairs. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaInterior of a bathroom with long trough sink and vanity. An open door leads to the living room then outside to a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA living room with sectional sofas surrounding a coffee table. Behind the sofa is an open expanse of land and mountain views both able to be walked into and behind floor length windows. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaSerrated metal roofing, with wooden paneled facade and exposed lightbulb. Inside is two long dining tables, a kitchen, and living room. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaAdirondack chairs on a patio overlooking a pool and forest landscape. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, California

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

View of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA long table with leather bar stools. On the left, a red kitchen. On the right, large doors that open up to chairs on a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island with barstools on one side, and a red kitchen facade behind it. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island detail with zoom in on two barstool seats. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLit white brick fireplace with metal tube chimney extending up through the next floor. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaTop of a red oak staircase. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaOld barn turned into modern home overlooking the yard with two Adirondack lawn chairs. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, California

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

View of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA long table with leather bar stools. On the left, a red kitchen. On the right, large doors that open up to chairs on a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island with barstools on one side, and a red kitchen facade behind it. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island detail with zoom in on two barstool seats. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLit white brick fireplace with metal tube chimney extending up through the next floor. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaTop of a red oak staircase. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaOld barn turned into modern home overlooking the yard with two Adirondack lawn chairs. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA living room with sectional sofas surrounding a coffee table. Behind the sofa is an open expanse of land and mountain views both able to be walked into and behind floor length windows. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaSerrated metal roofing, with wooden paneled facade and exposed lightbulb. Inside is two long dining tables, a kitchen, and living room. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaAdirondack chairs on a patio overlooking a pool and forest landscape. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaPool overlooking wooded landscape with wooden fence. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA wooden barn roof made of reclaimed wood with large trees in the background. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, California

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

View of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, California

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

View of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, California

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

View of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, California

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

View of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA long table with leather bar stools. On the left, a red kitchen. On the right, large doors that open up to chairs on a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island with barstools on one side, and a red kitchen facade behind it. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island detail with zoom in on two barstool seats. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLit white brick fireplace with metal tube chimney extending up through the next floor. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaTop of a red oak staircase. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaOld barn turned into modern home overlooking the yard with two Adirondack lawn chairs. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaInterior of a bathroom with long trough sink and vanity. An open door leads to the living room then outside to a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA living room with sectional sofas surrounding a coffee table. Behind the sofa is an open expanse of land and mountain views both able to be walked into and behind floor length windows. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaAdirondack chairs on a patio overlooking a pool and forest landscape. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaPool overlooking wooded landscape with wooden fence. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA wooden barn roof made of reclaimed wood with large trees in the background. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA small dog sits on a large white bed with white headboard and mounted reading lamps. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaCovered porch with wooden vertical paneling. Through open doors are several bedrooms. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA surfboard rests against a rusted multi-level facade with wooden garage door and small upper level window. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaSloped roof room with green pool table and couches with multicolor multipattern pillows in pink, green, and orange. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaPlywood mezzanine over a ping pong table. Fans and lights hanging from ceiling. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, California

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

View of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA long table with leather bar stools. On the left, a red kitchen. On the right, large doors that open up to chairs on a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island with barstools on one side, and a red kitchen facade behind it. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island detail with zoom in on two barstool seats. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLit white brick fireplace with metal tube chimney extending up through the next floor. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaTop of a red oak staircase. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaOld barn turned into modern home overlooking the yard with two Adirondack lawn chairs. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaInterior of a bathroom with long trough sink and vanity. An open door leads to the living room then outside to a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA living room with sectional sofas surrounding a coffee table. Behind the sofa is an open expanse of land and mountain views both able to be walked into and behind floor length windows. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaSerrated metal roofing, with wooden paneled facade and exposed lightbulb. Inside is two long dining tables, a kitchen, and living room. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaAdirondack chairs on a patio overlooking a pool and forest landscape. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaPool overlooking wooded landscape with wooden fence. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA wooden barn roof made of reclaimed wood with large trees in the background. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA small dog sits on a large white bed with white headboard and mounted reading lamps. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaCovered porch with wooden vertical paneling. Through open doors are several bedrooms. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA surfboard rests against a rusted multi-level facade with wooden garage door and small upper level window. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaSloped roof room with green pool table and couches with multicolor multipattern pillows in pink, green, and orange. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaPlywood mezzanine over a ping pong table. Fans and lights hanging from ceiling. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaRusted metal facade with four square evenly spaced windows in the center. Small plants in the foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA large barn roof supported by large columns covers the "barn" of the property. The exterior of the buildings are covered in mismatched, varied pieces of wood. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaOutside view of the residence in the early evening. Lights light up a covered pathway and the lawn of the yard. On the bottom floor of the residence, several large tables are lined up with chairs. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaAptos RetreatAptos RetreatAptos RetreatAptos Retreat

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

View of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA long table with leather bar stools. On the left, a red kitchen. On the right, large doors that open up to chairs on a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island with barstools on one side, and a red kitchen facade behind it. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island detail with zoom in on two barstool seats. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLit white brick fireplace with metal tube chimney extending up through the next floor. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaTop of a red oak staircase. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaOld barn turned into modern home overlooking the yard with two Adirondack lawn chairs. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaInterior of a bathroom with long trough sink and vanity. An open door leads to the living room then outside to a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA living room with sectional sofas surrounding a coffee table. Behind the sofa is an open expanse of land and mountain views both able to be walked into and behind floor length windows. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaSerrated metal roofing, with wooden paneled facade and exposed lightbulb. Inside is two long dining tables, a kitchen, and living room. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaAdirondack chairs on a patio overlooking a pool and forest landscape. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaPool overlooking wooded landscape with wooden fence. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA wooden barn roof made of reclaimed wood with large trees in the background. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA small dog sits on a large white bed with white headboard and mounted reading lamps. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaCovered porch with wooden vertical paneling. Through open doors are several bedrooms. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA surfboard rests against a rusted multi-level facade with wooden garage door and small upper level window. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaSloped roof room with green pool table and couches with multicolor multipattern pillows in pink, green, and orange. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaRusted metal facade with four square evenly spaced windows in the center. Small plants in the foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA large barn roof supported by large columns covers the "barn" of the property. The exterior of the buildings are covered in mismatched, varied pieces of wood. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaOutside view of the residence in the early evening. Lights light up a covered pathway and the lawn of the yard. On the bottom floor of the residence, several large tables are lined up with chairs. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaView of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaView of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaView of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, California

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

View of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, California

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

View of the residence in the early evening. A dining area with long tables opens up to a grassy hill and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaBarn-style building on hill with plants and shrubs, pool in foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA long table with leather bar stools. On the left, a red kitchen. On the right, large doors that open up to chairs on a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island with barstools on one side, and a red kitchen facade behind it. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLive edge kitchen island detail with zoom in on two barstool seats. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaLit white brick fireplace with metal tube chimney extending up through the next floor. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaTop of a red oak staircase. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaOld barn turned into modern home overlooking the yard with two Adirondack lawn chairs. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaInterior of a bathroom with long trough sink and vanity. An open door leads to the living room then outside to a lawn. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA living room with sectional sofas surrounding a coffee table. Behind the sofa is an open expanse of land and mountain views both able to be walked into and behind floor length windows. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaSerrated metal roofing, with wooden paneled facade and exposed lightbulb. Inside is two long dining tables, a kitchen, and living room. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaAdirondack chairs on a patio overlooking a pool and forest landscape. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaPool overlooking wooded landscape with wooden fence. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA wooden barn roof made of reclaimed wood with large trees in the background. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA small dog sits on a large white bed with white headboard and mounted reading lamps. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaCovered porch with wooden vertical paneling. Through open doors are several bedrooms. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaA surfboard rests against a rusted multi-level facade with wooden garage door and small upper level window. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaSloped roof room with green pool table and couches with multicolor multipattern pillows in pink, green, and orange. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaPlywood mezzanine over a ping pong table. Fans and lights hanging from ceiling. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaRusted metal facade with four square evenly spaced windows in the center. Small plants in the foreground. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, CaliforniaOutside view of the residence in the early evening. Lights light up a covered pathway and the lawn of the yard. On the bottom floor of the residence, several large tables are lined up with chairs. Aptos Retreat, Aptos, California

APTOS RETREAT

This project was designed for a San Francisco couple with six children – with ages ranging from high school to college. The property is located inland from the beach town of Aptos, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near the city of Santa Cruz.  The 20-acre site has ocean and mountain views and is about five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The family desired a setting that would be casual and rustic, and that would incorporate sustainable features to minimize the home’s carbon footprint. Diverse activities were part of the design program, including; entertaining, cooking, tanning, swimming, archery, horseshoes, gardening, and wood-splitting.

The project has 2 primary buildings, the main house, and the barn, plus accessory buildings and recreational components that were designed to work together as a country compound.

The 2800-square-foot Main House is composed of a ‘live building’ and a ‘sleep building’ that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.  The sleep building is slid under the higher roof of the live building.  The live building contains the dining,living, and kitchen areas, plus a master suite upstairs. The central kitchen anchors the main space, which is flanked by dining and living. The kitchen island has an eighteen foot long, three inch thick single walnut slab counter-top that has wany edges and was cut from a large fallen tree.  

Two, triple sets of eight by ten foot sliding glass doors open this main living space to the yard and the views, creating a panoramic, 32-foot-wide clear opening when fully deployed.  The smaller building, with two bedrooms and a shared bathhouse, angles out to form an L-shaped yard.  Reclaimed barn wood and Corten rusted steel roofing covers the exterior of the buildings. The interior is a composition of concrete floors, wood, stone, and steel.  

The Barn is a 1600-square-foot, Corten rusted steel warehouse outfitted for use as the property's "clubhouse."  The first floor is set up for ping pong andlarge-screen TV watching, and houses surfboards and other recreational beach equipment.  The loft level is set up with a billiard table and sofa beds all around for additional slumber party needs. The interioris a combination of the structural steel shell and the exposed wood loft.      

The property itself pulls it all together.  The house and barn sit on the sloped meadow surrounded by redwood trees and with distant ocean views to the south.  The activity areas are arranged around the outside of the house and barn.  The swimming pool is below the main house,with a fire-pit to the side. The archery range is above the house, and the horseshoe pit is between the house and the barn.  Two tent cabins are set among the redwoods and serve as guest houses.  A sauna is located between the sleep building and the tent cabins.

Location: Aptos CA

Type: New Residence, Barn

Size: 2,800 sq ft; 1,600 sq ft

Completed: July 2009

 

Architectural Team

Design Principal: Cass Calder Smith

Project Architect: Tim Quayle

 

Consultants                      

Structural Engineer: Ron Belknap

Civil Engineer: David Dauphin

Solar: Solar Technologies

Interior Designer: Lynn Ross Designs

Landscape Designer: Natalain Schwartz Designs

General Contractor: House: MBS Custom Builders; Barn: Westport Builders

Photography: Paul Dyer

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