Canyon Cabin

This house sits in a canyon, surrounded by the redwoods, adjacent to a creek. The site creates the context for this home, driven by the tree canopies and the running water, which forms a spectacular backdrop that affords privacy to the house and garden. The house was born as a hunting and fishing cabin in 1896 and has expanded many times. Because of the many renovations and additions, the principal task was to make sense of the house as a single entity; this involved wrestling with the existing plan to mold the various parts into usable zones. The brief Richardson Pribuss Architects received called for a four-bedroom house, functional for a family of five, and a new multi-purpose additional dwelling unit (ADU).