This concrete quest house in California is equipped to stand against the state's unpredictable wildfires
Photography: Bruce Damonte
Made of board-formed concrete, the building features exterior pivot doors in solid eastern white pine. Photography: Bruce Damonte . Connecting the three volumes together into one continuous form, the roof is made of smooth-trowelled concrete slab, and unfolds its crisp, multi-gabled silhouette against the blue Californian sky.Equipped to cope with nature and its vagaries, the retreat’s architecture is also deferential to them. Concrete floor plates are rooted into the side of the thin mountain ridge that climbs slowly from rolling valleys of cultivated vineyards, then peaks over a steep ravine.
Adds Lexie, ‘The irony is that it is a simple material, but when you see the process that it takes to build something 100 per cent in concrete – from the formwork to burying every single cable and pipe – it’s really intense. It’s like an inside-out building.’
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