This Mill Valley home’s mild transformation nods to its leafy context

A basic suburban Mill Valley home has been upgraded into a up to date household residence by Californian follow Michael Hennessey Structure. The residence, titled Courtyard Home, is positioned simply north of San Francisco, and whereas it sits in an idyllic, lushly inexperienced web site with unimaginable pure views, it was ‘drained’ and in want of an replace.

A Mill Valley home transformation

The structure studio founder, Michael Hennessey, obliged – looking for to create a ‘not solely architecture-as-shelter but in addition architecture-as-bridge: from previous to current; from one panorama situation to a different; and from what a household needed to, and what they may have’, the architects write in a press release. 

Hennessey and his staff set to work on sensitively updating the present property. For instance, the construction’s completely different volumes had been streamlined and unified with black, vertical cedar siding. 

The kitchen and eating space had been opened up right into a flowing inside that brings collectively indoors and outside, and presents lengthy, broad views of the encircling nature.

In the meantime, rooms had been deliberate with not solely the household of 4’s present arrange (the 2 youngsters are nonetheless younger) but in addition taking into consideration some flexibility and potential new wants because the time goes by.

The farmhouse typology, a relative trendy simplicity, and a modest aesthetic had been all a part of the combo within the staff’s inspiration. A refined and constant indoor/out of doors connection was essential too, to profit from the leafy, rural location. 

And whereas non-public areas had been saved tucked away from the open plan, communal ones, all bedrooms nonetheless look out in direction of the inexperienced outside.

Options such because the modern, timber flanked out of doors bathe within the again (a requirement from the purchasers) neatly underline this Mill Valley home’s relationship with its context. 

hennesseyarchitect.com