Mid-Century Modern / Hilltop Residence
Honor Award, Residential Design | ASLA 2009 Professional Awards
The project’s architecture is a sleek, rational mid-century modern residence. It celebrates a connection with the car. It espouses the idea of modernity as lifestyle.
With an open, airy quality, it rests on the ground lightly. Here modernity presents an opportunity for landscape to be an opposing quality — an earthy, grounded counterbalance.
From this dynamic relationship, the clients’ perspective on lifestyle is expanded.
2009 Awards
Facilitating privacy at the entry and maximizing mountain views from the living spaces, the slope of the shed roof is lowest at the carport and expands to create the tallest ceiling heights at the view windows. Thus, with sensitive siting, the house appears modest in size but in actuality is considerably larger because the ground studio is tucked beneath this level.
Landscape Architecture Magazine
With so many modern projects reaching a turning point of “restore or replace,” can Hilltop House offer any lessons for others? Yes, says Broadhurst: If it has good bones, identify, reveal, and honor them. Make landscape the satisfying “yin” to the architecture’s “yang,” regardless if the response is natural or contemporary “At the Hilltop Residence, context for me dictated a natural approach,” he explains. “Midcentury modern homes have big window walls for a reason, and it’s our job to lift people’s noses out of Facebook and to connect them to what’s outside.”
Mid-Century Modern
How do architecture and landscape connect with one another? The project’s architecture is a sleek, rational mid-century modern residence. It celebrates a connection with the car. It espouses the idea of modernity as lifestyle. With an open, airy quality, it rests on the ground lightly. Here modernity presents an opportunity for landscape to be an opposing quality – an earthy, grounded counterbalance. From this dynamic relationship, the clients’ perspective on lifestyle is expanded.