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Conceived as a tranquil haven for its homeowners—tech
workers with a passion for global travel—Dawnridge also prior-
itizes their connection to the outdoors so that they might live
with the landscape, not apart from it. "We felt a calling to not
only have the house work in sync with the natural environment
but actually use the bigger development of the property as a
way to do more," says Jess Field. He worked with landscape
architect Joni Janecki to contain the construction footprint,
support a wildlife habitat and the propagation of native plants,
and restore a watershed, then reorient the entire project from
a suburban plot into an integral part of the larger landscape.
"Working in from the property lines is a very suburban mind-
set," says Field, who, part and parcel of the Field Architecture
playbook, took the exact opposite approach with Dawnridge,
taking down fences to forge a connection with the greater
woodland. "Our goal was to erase the property lines." Doing
so meant working with significant restraints, including prodi-
gious natural California oaks on the site—none of which were
"We felt a calling to not only have the house
work in sync with the natural environment
but actually use the bigger development of
the property as a way to do more."
A WINDOW INTO THE WORLD, INTERIOR SPACES FUSE
WITH EXTERIOR SPACES, BLURRING DIFFERENT REALMS
INTO ONE. SLATTED SIDING SERVES AS A LIGHT FILTER.
INFUSED WITH LIGHT,
THE LIVING SPACE
FEATURES AN INTERIOR
REPETITION OF THE
EXTERIOR SIDING
AND A MEDITATIVE
ROCK GARDEN. AN
EAMES LOUNGE
CHAIR AND OTTOMAN
COMPLEMENT A
COUCH FROM LIVING
DIVANI DUMAS AND A
COFFEE TABLE FROM
EGG COLLECTIVE.
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