Waverley Palo Alto House, New California Home, Property Photos
Waverley Palo Alto Home
New San Francisco Area Residence, California, USA – design by Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney
Aug 25, 2018
Waverley Palo Alto House
Design: Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects
Location: Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California, USA
Waverley Palo Alto Home, CA
Designed for a young couple, this 5,000 sf home and 1,700 sf back house sits on a flat 21,000 sf lot in a 1920?s Palo Alto neighborhood. The architecture is a study in strong simple composition and highly refined materiality with an emphasis on craft. The massing defines solid and void, captures natural light, and connects the indoors with the landscape, allowing the homeowner?s to ?experience the outdoors from within.?
The ground floor volumes are wrapped in an elongated hand-fired brick, emphasizing the horizontality of the architecture that lays solidly on the land. Bronze-trimmed ceiling planes slide between the brick masses, and floor-to-ceiling glazed openings are captured by thin-profiled bronze frames.
In contrast to the grounded brick volumes, the second floor is clad in stainless steel panels and oversized aluminum-framed windows. The lightness and openness of the second floor is nestled among the oak-tree canopies of the site.

At the basement level, a wine cellar and tasting room open to a sunken landscaped courtyard.
A 30ft by 10ft continuous pane of glass runs alongside the grand stairwell of floating stone steps, c...