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Alchemy

Saint Paul, MN

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Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
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Sonoma weeHouse

Alchemy’s Sonoma weeHouse was designed in Minnesota for a client in San Francisco, built in Oregon, and shipped to its Santa Rosa, CA site 90% complete. The client, an architect himself and Apple’s Director of Store Design, was the project’s co-pilot with weeHouse founder Geoffrey Warner, Alchemy’s principal architect. This small, ultra-minimal, high-end home is based on Alchemy’s weeHouse but customized to meet the luxe finishing requirements the client requested. The prefab house is composed of two minimalist open-sided boxes set on a concrete plinth nestled on the edge of gnarled oaks and an expansive view. Both structures feature steel frames, 9 ft. tall sliding glass walls set into custom corrugated weathering steel boxes and ipe interiors with oiled oak cabinetry. The boxes are offset on board-formed concrete plinths connected by a set of Alchemy-designed steel stairs and railings fabricated in Minnesota.

The 16 ft. x 40 ft., 640 SF primary box features whitewashed oak bed box in the middle of the volume, creates a kitchen-dining-living room space on one side, and a bath space on the other side. For shipping logistics, the primary box was composed of two modules, with the 10 ft. x 40 ft. porch porch arriving 90% complete, bolted onto the main module onsite, and cantilevered into the site’s dramatic landscape.

The accompanying 330 SF guest house is an abridged version of the larger module with a large whitewashed oak wardrobe forming the bathroom wall.

 
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Status: Built
Location: Santa Rosa, CA, US

 
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016
Sonoma weeHouse, copyright Alchemy, 2016