Castle Black, Sea Ranch California, Californian Real Estate, CA Rural House, USA Modern Architecture Photos
Castle Black in Sea Ranch, California
Feb 6, 2022
Design: Klopf Architecture
Location: Sea Ranch, California, USA

Photos ©2021 Mariko Reed
Castle Black, California
True artists inspired by socially relevant modern design, architect Geoff Campen and designer Diana Ruiz designed Castle Black – a new minimal, modern, open home they would call their own. It was important that the design of their new house engage closely with the contours and characteristics of the landscape.

The former San Francisco city dwellers fell in love with Sea Ranch with its consistency, inventiveness of designs and the careful architectural connections to the land.
The two main factors for the design of the volume are the relationship with the site, and the requirements for structures in The Sea Ranch. A unique site, the forest creates a wall in the back and the view to the ocean is in the front, much of the design came from this interaction. The house rises and is more vertical amongst the trees, and appears more horizontal in the meadow facing the ocean.

The house with its dark stained siding rises upward toward the back where it blends with the pine and redwood forest behind it. The windows and interior spaces also follow the vertical and horizontal orientation. The bedroom loft captures views of the forest through tall vertical windows that mimic the trees outside. A steep s...