is a minimal home located in Sunnyvale, California, designed by . The Twin Gable House is a thoroughly renovated Eichler Home originally designed by A. Quincy Jones and Frederick Emmons in1962. The original design for this Eichler model, known as Plan OJ-1605, is an inward-looking courtyard scheme where the living spaces wrap around a central, open-air atrium, which is the first space one experiences when entering from the carport. The owners, Isabelle Olson and Matthaeus Krenn, both designers who work in tech, fell in love with the house when they first toured the property, but sought to modernize the spaces while making the home a more energy efficient and comfortable sanctuary for their young family of four. To do this, they turned to Ryan Leidner Architecture to help reimagine the house for a new era. Wanting to celebrate the logic of the house’s existing post and beam structural system, walls were strategically removed to create more openness in the floor plan, while a large set of pocketing, sliding glass doors were added to the rear façade, which allow the interior space to seamlessly flow to the back yard and new pool. |