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A Hillside sanctuary in the Pacific Northwest


US architects Hoedemaker Pfeiffer recently saw work completed on a “personal retreat” located on a spectacular, elevated site in Washington State. The owners of ‘Hillside house’ looked to


Hoedemaker Pfeiffer to create a retreat inspired by a “treasured stone and wood home lost to fire decades earlier in the hills of Appalachia.” The designers’ task “was not to recreate


the house but rather to give its spirit new form in the Pacific Northwest,” said the firm. Taking inspiration from its remote site in the San Juan Islands, the design team conceived the project as “a series of simple stone volumes growing naturally from their rocky surroundings.” From that concept emerged a main house and a guesthouse, each responding to its own unique location on the site. Taking full advantage of views of Puget


Sound, the main house is sited on a small plateau high on top of a steeply sloping hillside. The view on one side and the road on the other “suggested a stone plinth and stone wall to form the base and rear of the house,” commented Hoedemaker Pfeiffer. A pair of thick stone walls with fireplaces


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rising together within the property interior enhance the concept, separating the main level into public and private realms and flanking a central stone staircase. A light-filled wood structure sits on the low stone base, “creating a sense of enclosure.” A simple shed roof covering the pavilion tips low in front to protect from the southern summer sun. Winter light in turn penetrates deep into the main living spaces through a wall of glass across the building’s south elevation. Behind the wood pavilion and within the


stone wall to the rear are more utilitarian spaces. Protected by a smaller shed roof pitched in the opposite direction, the relative height difference between the wood pavilion and these secondary program elements allows north light to flood into the primary living spaces via a series of clerestory windows. These also allow the release of warm air high on the leeward side of the structure. The site for the guesthouse “came with


significant challenges.” The concept began with a stone tower set near the centre of the small circular parcel. Rising high above steep sloping grade, it acts as “a


three-dimensional datum,” said the architects. “Feature elements puncture each of the tower’s walls.” The stair is comprised of a concrete base below large casement windows, and “emerges from the stone,” incorporating a wood screen around its perimeter to balance natural light with privacy. The main entry occurs at the high side of the property, offering ease of access to the project’s public spaces through a simple, full-height opening cut into the stone volume’s north elevation. A steel canopy extends from interior to


exterior. Once inside the view deck opposite the entry provides “a very different experience.” Cantilevering far above grade, it affords a view of Puget Sound “that is as thrilling as it is beautiful” said the architects. The dining room, which also extends


from the stone tower, was conceived as a three-sided glass object “floating in a forest of trees.” Two steel beams carry its entire weight and extend deep into the interior floor system to allow the room to cantilever. Floor-to-ceiling glass wraps the exterior with minimal interruption. In order to preserve nearby trees, the design team developed custom retaining walls capable of avoiding critical root zones. The lower level of the home contains the


more private spaces. Two small bedrooms, a single shared bath, and modest utility spaces are all contained within the stone perimeter. A concrete patio below the dining room floating above provides a secondary entry as well as its own distinct view experience. “The buildings provide two related but


distinct ways of appreciating the beauty of this site,” said Hoedemaker Pfeiffer.


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