“The pavilion of heaven is bare.”

-Percy Bysshe Shelley

The site is a hilltop with a broad overlook. Native oak, pine and manzanita trees create an intricate set of spaces and frames with a dappled canopy above.

The design of the house emerges from these found conditions.

A square is marked out on the ground. A field of columns on an 18’ grid is established. Two walls protect the square. Within, three pavilions are located. One houses the main living spaces, one the master suite, and one a guest suite. A pool is the fourth object in the square.

Each pavilion is enclosed in sliding glass walls with furniture and fixtures floating within, wrapped in etched glass. Spaces dissolve with almost no difference between inside and out.

Trellises of aluminum bar grating extend the roofs of the three pavilions and complement the dappled light of the foliage. The columns continue the dense trunk scape found on the site.

This is an elemental architecture of column and roof, a man-made grove of habitation.