RaveOn

In 1956, architects Fehr and Granger designed a modest house to hover above the ground beneath a cathedral of live oaks.Sixty years later, the architectural notion was to re-clad the house in insulated glass and unfinished vertical cedar siding, returning it to the original form/footprint by removing an expansion and garage in-fill. The social side of the house contains the cooking, dining and living spaces flanked by limestone walls that claim the outdoors. A new, L-shaped white oak cabinet separating formal and informal living areas appears like another wall in the landscape.For the private side of the house, a generous master bedroom and bath was created by repositioning bedroom closets. An original back-switching stair pinched circulation, restricting flow.Adopting a straight-run, hanging stair; relieves this bottleneck and leads to a concrete, wood and steel improvisation of the original structure, cantilevered over the hill to complete the missing backyard.