Tom Kundig designs Truckee, California home with metal "treehouse" for Faulkner Architects founder

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https://www.dezeen.com/2022/08/02/olson-kundig-faulkner-architects-analog-house-truckee/









Seattle architecture studio Olson Kundig Architects has collaborated with Greg Faulkner and his wife Lesa to create a home in a Californian forest that incorporates a steel-clad tower. The 5,420-square-foot (504-square-metre) Analog House is in Truckee, California – just over the state's border with Nevada – an area known for its forests, winter sports and lakes.









Olson Kundig Architects founder Tom Kundig worked with Faulkner – founder of Faulkner Architects – to create a home for the later that incorporates cement, steel and glass with minimal interruption of the surrounding ponderosa pine, manzanita and exposed basalt. "Tom's an architect's architect," said Faulkner. "It is all about the work with no real exposed personal ego when you are in a meeting with him "It was really a team effort."









Kundig said that he was excited about the prospect of designing with and for the Berkeley-based architect on his own turf – Faulkner Architects has a second office in Truckee – referencing the pairs' preexisting friendship and mutual respect as a starting point for the collaboration. "To be under the scrutiny of a terrific architect that's been delivering great work is no small task," said Kundig. "Greg and I are both old enough to be mature and confident in our voices and ability to collaborate as designers."









The result was a structure with many perpendicular volumes with the pour-in-place concrete that reference Faulkner's prior output mixed with a series of "kinetic devices that engage both the built environment and natural context". Concrete walls extend away from the envelope and jut into the forest. A series of hallways rooms and patios twists through the landscape, oriented around a central internal courtyard filled with foliage that includes three adult trees.

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[viva la]

1. It's very impressive-- the outside-in

But I don't think I could ever relax enough to watch TV in that living room.

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2. The walls in our unfinished basement look exactly...

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