GROWING URBAN HABITATS
Andersen Brothers | Orchard House
Sebastopol, CA | 2005 | Project Link
INTERPLOTTING DWELLING + GARDEN
The massive concrete walls align
with the rows of tree trunks, while
the open volumes of the rooms
and exterior courts align with the
open space between trees, resulting
in a direct spatial
continuity between
house and landscape, fi gure and
void.
The grid of an old apple orchard creates a fi eld for the house. The grid makes its way into the house, dictating
the position of columns and structuring outdoor spaces that extend rooms into the fi eld. The notion
of the garden carries throughout the experience of dwelling indoors, outdoors and in the many places
designed in between.
Research By: Catherine Brown
