Coastal Residence
Cliff Ridge House
Big Sur, California, USA
Client
Private commission
Big Sur, California, USA
The project
A timber house on a redwood ridge above the Pacific, its cultivated plateau barely touching the slope and its rooms turning toward the ocean through one long glazed wall.
Discipline
Coastal Residence
Location
Big Sur, California, USA
Year
2026
Area
360 m²
01·The brief
One flat place
A ridge site above the Big Sur coast, nearly all slope. The brief was to build on the one flat place the site offered and touch the ground nowhere else: a house for a writer who wanted the ocean in every working hour and the fog to arrive through the trees.
02·The approach
One long room, one wall of glass
The house is a single parallel plan along the ridge: rooms in a line, one long glazed wall toward the water, vertical-grain redwood outside and in. The deck follows the ridge line; the ground below is left to the redwoods and the ferns.
03·The result
Completing in 2026
The house completes in 2026. The redwood has already begun to silver at the weather gable, as specified. Published with the owner's consent.
Scope of work
01Architecture
02Steep-site engineering
03Interior architecture
04Custom joinery design
05Deck and outdoor room
06Landscape reinstatement
