Project Type: Single-Family

This special home is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, amidst nature and friends.

Built of timeless natural materials designed to age and blend into the landscape, the home is focused inward and outward, providing spaces for privacy and community.

This residence explores the unification of the owner’s home inspirations: manor homes, cottages, hobbit holes and speakeasies.

The two-story design deflects noise away from a busy side street and provides a quiet, secluded backyard complete with secluded screened dining porch.

From the exterior, the structure is simple and direct, with a material palette of rustic board-formed concrete, glass and exposed weathering steel.

The interior spaces are more elegant, with large Moroccan rug and tile accents and numerous custom-made fixtures: a wood fire pizza oven constructed on site by fourth-generation Neapolitan oven builders, a refrigerated bancone surfaced with Alabama white marble and a cooking hearth fireplace containing grills and a through-wall rotisserie.

This space is home for a family of three and their dog. The industrial theme of steel and concrete tilt-up panels continues through the upstairs living space.

The Arnold residence was a challenging project due to tight lot restrictions, a steep and irregular site, and imposing setback requirements.

To accommodate all of these factors, CCR created angular forms that fit within the exact buildable area of the site.

This home is oriented to capture north-facing views and minimize solar heat gain via sunshades, roof overhangs, screened porches and covered patios.

Accessible design features to aid long-term use of the home include: a residential elevator traversing all floor levels, accessible ceiling lights, an indoor carwash bay and residential appliances mounted at accessible heights.

The home was conceived as an interpretation of the traditional coastal cottage.

The materials include simple wood floors and raw concrete masonry walls with smooth stucco interior coatings. The roof is low slung and has deep overhangs evoking earlier traditional residential forms floating over tall glass openings to allow diffused light to infiltrate the interior.

Luxurious natural materials such as wood tiled columns, indigenous marble countertops, bamboo millwork and onyx tile give the space an inviting warmth and vitality. Floating in the tub with a view to the city below is one of the owners’ favorite pastimes.

Inside, few windows preserve wall space for the owner’s contemporary art collection.

The large living area opens to a private courtyard for poolside entertainment. Outside, a detached garage provides covered parking as well as office space above for a graphic design business.