Three Vistas by Buttrick Projects Architecture + Design
Three Vistas is a 2024 house in CA, United States, by Buttrick Projects Architecture + Design. Perched above the San Francisco Bay, the renovation edits a large home into a more sheltered retreat. Three living areas now relate to meadow, ridge, and water in distinct ways, while new openings, cedar lining, and a dissolving kitchen wall bring daylight and the view into daily life.
About Three Vistas
Perched high above the San Francisco Bay, the house looks out in three directions, each one framed with a different register of distance and shelter. Light moves across large openings, cedar surfaces, and walls lined with art.
The renovation in CA, United States, by Buttrick Projects Architecture + Design, edits a large house into a home that feels more like a nest. Rather than flattening its outlook, the work gives each main living area a distinct relationship to the land and water beyond.
Reframe The Sitting Room
In the sitting room, an enormous new window widens a view that was once constrained. The opening pulls the eye toward the bay and makes the room feel less enclosed, without erasing its sense of refuge. The intervention is direct, almost architectural in its plainness.
Warm The Courtyard
The central courtyard meets a different problem. Here, the green expanse beyond the walls can feel unruly, so cedar is brought in to temper the room and give it scale. The material softens the setting and makes the courtyard read as part of the daily sequence rather than a leftover void.
Dissolve The Kitchen Edge
At the kitchen, the glass wall gives way and the threshold loosens. That move lets the interior spill outward, so the house feels connected to the air and landscape around it. The change is subtle in form but decisive in use.
Let Art Roam
Art runs along the walls and settles into corners, where smaller objects give the eye places to pause. The rooms stay active with visual interruptions, but the composition never feels crowded. Up on the ridge, the house holds shelter and outlook at once, with the bay still present at every turn.
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