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.

▼建筑围绕中部的橡树设置，the house was laid out around the oak tree in the center

▼巨大的橡树为庭院提供荫蔽，the great oak tree provided shade to the courtyard

这座农场房屋在经典布局的基础上使用当代材料和景观设计，既传统又现代。人们可以从庭院侧的主入口直接进入巨大的房间，建筑后部设有一个70英尺的泳池，越过泳池可以欣赏西边动人的美景。整个公共区域开放流动，厨房的窗户开向庭院，餐厅的滑门可以完全打开，让室内外无缝衔接，形成户外就餐空间。基本流线围绕内部庭院设置，每条走道的尽端连接无垠的自然景观，加强了建筑与环境的联系。客房包含一个私人厨房和起居室。车库设在辅助用房中，和主楼以走廊相连。

▼庭院，courtyard

▼主入口，main entrance

▼入口处楼梯细部，details of the staircase at the entrance

▼建筑后部设置泳池，swimming pool at the rear of the house

▼越过泳池可以欣赏自然风光，view to the nature across the swimming pool

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.

▼开敞的起居空间，expansive public area

▼开放厨房，open kitchen

▼从厨房看向庭院，view to the courtyard from the kitchen

▼餐厅的拉门可以完全打开，形成户外用餐空间，sliding doors of the dining space could be completely opened to create an outdoor dining pavilion

▼走廊尽头的卧室，可以欣赏无限美景，bedroom at the end of the corridor with extending views outward

建筑室外使用耐候波纹钢板，浅黄色石灰岩墙，巨大的穿孔铝板等材料；室内则由雪松木天花，油面钢和裸露的混凝土地面组成。整体选材弱化了建筑的现代感，创造了一座精致而又温馨的农场住宅。

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.

▼夜景，night view

Project size: 4063 ft2 Completion date: 2014 Project team: Feldman Architecture, Ground Studio Landscape Architecture