The Santa Lucia Preserve is a private community of 20,000 acres in the Carmel Valley, 18,000 of which are protected by a conservation land trust. The Preserve includes only 297 homesites.

The brief was to design a fully-accessible family compound to accommodate a multigenerational family with strong business and cultural ties to Korea; a “California home with a Korean heart.”

The design process was reviewed through five hearings with the Design Review Board with adherence to design guidelines verified at every step.

Design features include:

A “Z”-shaped floor plan nestled into the existing stand of trees.
Ramps and an elevator provide accessibility.

A restrained material palette is used. The interior includes Italian Bluestone, white oak floors, quartz slab countertops and shower surrounds, white oak built-in furnishings, painted drywall, perforated steel stairs and stainless-steel railings. Exterior finishes include Italian Bluestone, vertical-grain cedar slat screens, weathering steel siding and fascia, cement plaster and limestone cladding.

Interior and exterior lighting is linear LED.

Stacking Glazed door systems by Western Doors and Windows.

All heating and cooling is provided through high efficiency, locally distributed electric heat pump cassettes and blower units.

The length, location and extent of all roof overhangs designed so that minimal direct sunlight penetration is allowed into the home during the hottest months of the year. Cooling loads are reduced as well through the use of vertical cedar wood sun screens.

The ground plane structure of both the house and guest house is concrete slab on grade with a stone slab finish. The resulting exposed thermal mass absorbs, stores and releases heat in the cooler months.

The extensive use of stacking glass door systems allows for highly manageable natural cross ventilation and cooling.

Exterior materials are low maintenance materials such as stone veneer, natural cedar and weathering steel.

Main Residence: 7354 s.f.
Garage & Guesthouse: 2395 s.f.
Lot area: 3.86 acres
Homeland area (buildable zone): 1.0 acres