House of Music
Truckee, CA
Architect: Josh Horne, AIA
Structural Engineer: Steve Noonan
Interior Designer: Josh Horne and Design Bar
Builder: Matthias Mede
Photography: Jean Bai
This house started as a speculative build with a local developer, and turned into a spectacular collaboration with musically-inclined clients who found the home they were always looking for within the forms of the building. From the outset, the site exhibited a certain rhythm to the trees, boulders, and landforms. The house is sited on a fairly steep hill, and backs up to US Forest Service-managed green space. Vertical knotty cedar expresses the abundance of trees on-site, while gray concrete and horizontal gray cedar echo the surrounding boulders. Black metal building projections proportioned in subservience to the surrounding forms tie it all together. Localized symmetry of rooms, windows, and volumes speak to Nature’s design methods. From these elements a bass line of boulders underlines a tempo of trees, and gives structure to a chorus of voices in glass and metal.
The back of the double-height Great Room pushes into nature, immersing the interior in the surrounding environment.