A low, horizontal "contemporary ranch" that curves with the land in an S-shape — rammed-earth-and-glass walls follow the contours, Douglas-fir ceilings run from inside out to the overhangs, and big south-facing glass doors open the main living area to a covered porch and a patio with operable sunshades.
It pairs natural mass walls with abundant daylight from clerestories, and was the first home on California's Central Coast to earn LEED Platinum. The whole ethos — low massing, open plan, strong indoor/outdoor connection, living centered informally on the kitchen — is the register we want, scaled down.
No public figure. As a LEED-Platinum, rammed-earth custom home in the Santa Lucia Preserve by a top firm, it's the aspirational, fully-custom high end — included for the design language more than the budget. Our straw-bale two-ADU compound targets roughly a third of this all-in.