Landscape

Junipero House is both open to the elements and protected from their unfiltered impacts. All rooms are bestowed with their own private terrace and garden views or access.

Moss-covered rocks and twisted tree trunks give the landscape a fairyland-like quality.

Just outside the studio, Ground Studio Landscape Architecture created a natural courtyard with a meadow and an edgeless pool that mimics a pond.

Sunlight pours through the surrounding treetops and creates light play on the forest floor and on the interior of the studio.

Pine and gravel sleepers follow the site’s natural slope, weaving through the existing pine trees until reaching the home’s entrance.

The green roof over the one-story living area blends the home into the bushland.

The en suite bathroom in the Mountain View cabin has a full-ceiling skylight and a glass wall.

A highlight of the overhaul is the floor-to-ceiling glass on the north side, which includes a five-panel bifold door. The door opens to the couple’s favorite area of the house, the backyard. The deck is shaded by the cantilevered roof, and Ren planted drought-resistant brush amid the existing oak trees.

She also introduced new masonry features in primary colors and reoriented the home’s glazing toward the backyard rather than the street.