Orchard House in Sonoma County, CA, USA
Orchard House as the name suggests is a site-specific project where Anderson Anderson architects have used cast concrete construction, rationally pre-fabricated through the use of a limited set of repeated, modular formwork, and standardized SIPS sandwich panel and pre-fabricated truss framing components. This technique helped the architects to keep the construction costs low while the structure was highly adaptable to the landscape.
Sonoma County famous for mature orchards was the site for this dwelling and therefore the house is made in conformity with the strict rectilinear geometry of the tree grid while it exploits the secondary diagonal surprises particular to human motion through an agricultural field. The architects had to use long sequences of interior and exterior courtyards to afford long metered views.