Olive trees
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Project • By Jimenez Linares • Private Houses
Cruz House
Cruz House is located within a landscape of olive trees in the Aljarafe region of Seville. The house moves away from any nearby urban nucleus, dissolving the limits of the plot with the rest of the landscape.
Jimenez Linares
The functional scheme of the house resembles the structure of Palladio's Villa Rotonda, where the exterior volume is intersected by a second cross-shaped volume, which empties the interior of the house.
Jimenez Linares
The outer shell of the house, a two-story white cylinder, is interrupted by a cross-shaped piece, connecting the opposite facades and achieving transparency towards the four orientations. Furthermore, in height the central space is expanded with a double height, connected to the upper gallery... More
Project • By Surfacedesign, Inc • Residential Landscape
Uliveto Woodside Garden
Located on a vegetative gradient in Northern California, this three-acre property is in the Silicon Valley community of Woodside. The property owners commissioned Surfacedesign to merge the residential structures—designed by architecture firm Olson Kundig—and the surrounding landscape into a single, flowing, integrated entity. The philosophical design approach prioritized blurring the sight lines of the parcel’s varying elevations and “borrowing” vistas of the adjacent Santa Cruz mountains. This vision was realized by innovatively creating four distinct planting areas: olive orchard, house entrance (succulents), water-wise perennial meadow, and California native meadow transition edge.
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