Passive house grade

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Exterior covered in tongue + groove cedar cladding, rough side out, creating lovely texture.

Jeremy Bittermann; © Jeremy Bittermann / JBSA

Modern exterior, tongue + groove cedar cladding, rough side out, creating lovely texture.

A mid-century style indoor planter grounds and softens the sensuously curved staircase with custom railing.

Modern entry featuring terrazzo flooring and oiled white oak.

Built-in interior planters whose curved edges ground the voluptuous entry staircase, to the serene hand-troweled plaster curves.

Project • By Risa Boyer Architecture • Private Houses

Council Crest Residence

When the pandemic reshaped the way we think about home, one Portland family decided to reimagine theirs completely. The result is the Council Crest Residence (completed May 2024), a project by Risa Boyer Architecture that blends intimacy, craft, and high performance into a singular vision of residential living. Caption Jeremy Bittermann; © Jeremy Bittermann / JBSA Jeremy Bittermann; © Jeremy Bittermann / JBSA Perched into the hillside of Portland’s Council Crest neighborhood, the home responds to a deep desire for connection, to each other, to nature, and to the future. The clients, coming from a compact vertical home with little access to the outdoors, envisioned a sanctuary that would be warm, adaptable, an... More