Onion Flats has designed this single family home in the hills of Oakland, CA overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge and all of San Francisco to merge comfortably into a difficult and steeply sloped site. This site provides a tranquil yet inspiring setting for a young couple, their two children and their aging in-laws. The physical site offered the project its greatest challenge and direction. It’s 17% slope coupled with height restrictions and adjacencies to neighbouring homes required that the building be 'bunkered' into the landscape. The Architect used this as a source of the project’s programmatic, spatial and architectural strategy, which is centered around the entry or 'knuckle' (functions as a ‘de-bunkering’ device) of the building. It is also the organisational space of transition between the more public and private domains of the home. As a result, a subtle yet deliberate carving and terracing of the landscape away from the building, releasing it from bunkered status and creating an experience of tranquility and lightness in this heavily grounded building was created.
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