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Experience Architecture 2021: Framing the Valley: A Conversation with Maria Ogrydziak, AIA and Sam Lubell

Experience Architecture 2021: Framing the Valley: A Conversation with Maria Ogrydziak, AIA and Sam Lubell A thoughtful and engaging conversation celebrating the distinct and vibrant Central Valley region. Award-winning Davis based architect, author, and artist, Maria…

Join us for a thoughtful and engaging conversation celebrating the distinct and vibrant Central Valley region!
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FLOW HOUSE - The owners wanted a home that responded to the grandeur of the Central Valley, and made it a part of their everyday life. When her clients invited Maria to assess the viability of a potential home site at the west edge of California’s Central Valley, Maria was awestruck by the immense scale of the view down and across the valley from the top of the hill. That feeling of flowing, endless open space became the primary theme in the house’s design and Flow House was born.

Recognizing that ‘traditional’ and ‘contemporary’ spaces are different in character but can co-exist and be mutually enlivening, Maria sliced and punched the bungalow to make way for a 20-foot threshold that threads both spaces. Where she removed existing windows, she framed the openings in blue-stained wood, marking the connections between old and new. Where former exterior walls became interior walls of the loft, she further illuminate the relation between the two eras by exposing the bungalow’s original wood sheathing, painted with age.

Welcome to the ART BARN - This 2,400-square-foot art studio is a folly built in a pre-existing steel-framed animal barn, is a synthesis of unusual functions that make sense in the Central Valley, a mecca for California artists and animal-lovers.

CUBIST - A mid-century-modern house is doubled in size and rebuilt into a two-story terraced family retreat. The entry’s orange color is an echo of California citrus groves, and the simple, Cubist exterior forms are clad in a playful combination of wood siding and cement board. The house, designed for Central Valley style indoor-outdoor living, is private and nestled into a mature garden, with large windows overlooking the pool.

Flight House makes the most of the client’s modest budget to create a contemporary, regionally inspired house that captures the diurnal cycle, tracking the sun’s path from sunrise to sunset as the family goes about their day. It builds on the heritage of California modernism, but is constructed of materials that have been adapted to be more energy-efficient and livable in the Central Valley desert climate

Flight House is a Central Valley adaptation of the Case Study Houses of Pierre Koenig. Working more than 60 years ago, Koenig’s vision for affordable contemporary living, providing modernity and elegance together with privacy and openness, is applicable today. His steel and glass houses offer a free flow of space between functions within the house and between indoors to out. Their simple diagrams are based on the properties of structural steel frames and walls of glass.

Flight House is a Central Valley adaptation of the Case Study Houses of Pierre Koenig. Working more than 60 years ago, Koenig’s vision for affordable contemporary living, providing modernity and elegance together with privacy and openness, is applicable today. His steel and glass houses offer a free flow of space between functions within the house and between indoors to out. Their simple diagrams are based on the properties of structural steel frames and walls of glass

A mid-century-modern house is doubled in size and rebuilt into a two-story terraced family retreat. The entry’s orange color is an echo of California citrus groves, and the simple, Cubist exterior forms are clad in a playful combination of wood siding and cement board

Welcome to the 🌼🏡 This 2,400-square-foot art studio is a folly built in a pre-existing steel-framed animal barn