Goals and Needs Program:

• A new home grounded with old world Mediterranean style charm. To make it feel as if it has already aged like a fine European wine.
• Design the house refining the clients’ idea sketches.
• Place the new home on family property.

• Design a home that incorporates the elements of time and history.

• True to tradition, incorporate history of the family and site by salvaging stone from the client’s family home and save mature trees for a sense of permanence.
• Contrast the open flexible arrangement of modern living by providing each area with its own distinctive sense of place.
• Incorporate eclectic design details to a unified composition for the concept of being passed down through generations.
• Create unusual surprise spaces for intrigue and interest.
• Allude to the structural type, massing proportion and detailing of Mediterranean style homes.
• Select materials displaying artesian hand craftsmanship reminiscent of an era before mechanization.

• Arches, columns, alcoves.
• Rooms are linked by a 42’ long interior loggia that offers views of the terrace and garden beyond.
• Plastered walls & ceilings with radius corners. Living room has a 15’ high wood ceiling with clear-story windows with decorative iron work.
• The kitchen has an assemblage of cabinet styles and hardware that give it a “collected over time” feel. 
• The kitchen and 2^nd floor borrow light from a unique surprise two-story light shaft evoking a feeling of hidden passage.
• Window dormers edged with “clay” roofing tiles and iron balcony.
• Second floor short walls and sloped ceilings for attic coziness
• Exterior hand toweled E.I.F.S. resembles aged stucco while gaining insulative value.
• Formal rear garden façade.