Silicon Valley House, Mountain View, CA by Turkel Design
Tucked in the suburbs of Silicon Valley, this sustainable prefab home–designed for a family with two young kids–takes a warm, natural approach to modern design.
This home situated on a narrow lot (42 ft. x 125ft.) in a dense neighborhood and required a plan only 32 feet in width. To compound the difficulty of the site, a shared driveway extends along one edge, requiring that the house favor the opposite side of the site.
Using this as a starting point, the house organizes itself around an open-sided courtyard on the private side of the side. The house is unique in the way the courtyard is re-interpreted as a space half within the home, and half outside. This space is made possible by the use of a 21 foot retractable wall of glass. This major space of the home is free to act as a living area that is both simultaneously indoors and out – spanning the full width of the site and giving the impression of a much larger environment.
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