Janette Komoda Kim
2024
The design anchors social spaces around two infrastructural cores, where people can engage with products of the land. One core brought kitchen, workshop, and office spaces together around a wet wall. Another gathered lounges, reading nooks, and sleeping lofts around the thermal mass of a fireplace . Around these cores, four L’-shaped volumes, which we called the Four Sisters, created a series of courtyards and pocket gardens where interior and exterior spaces flow into each other.
We also made use of a remaining rammed earth foundations from a previous structure, following foundations in some places and counteracting them in others. Gaps between new and old create surprising moments, such as sunken seating pits and tiny gardens.
ClientPrivate Client
Scope
2700 square foot home, guest suite, workshop, and outdoor gathering. Schematic Design phase only.
Design Team If/Then Studio (Sara Dean, principal with Gibran Larquier) served as project architect. If/Then Studio and All of the Above (Janette Komoda Kim, principal) collaborated as design partners.