Garay House, California Residential Property, Tiburon Home, USA Architecture, Images, Architect
Garay House
Contemporary California Home in Tiburon, USA ? design by Swatt | Miers Architects
Nov 3, 2016
Garay House in California
Location: Tiburon, California, USA
Design: Swatt | Miers Architects
Garay House in Tiburon, California
Lynn and Mark Garay had lived in an older home on a magnificent, private hillside lot in Tiburon, California for many years.

They dreamed one day of transforming their low, one story 1970s home into a new home worthy of their spectacular site, perched above San Francisco Bay. Their dreams began to be realized in 2005 with the design of a 2000 square foot addition, coupled with a complete renovation of the existing 3,200 square foot house.
The site is a half-acre, south-facing hillside parcel, with complete privacy, and unobstructed 270 degree views from the East Bay hills, across Angel Island, San Francisco, to Mt. Tamalpais to the west.

Responding to the physical conditions of the site, the new house is almost entirely opaque on the north side where a new entrance motor court is defined by overlapping retaining walls above a driveway composed of a strong grid of concrete slabs.

One hundred and fifty year old Mission Olive trees, and large mature Blue Agave contrast five ?free-standing? walls constructed from long horizontal pieces of Jerusalem Stone, custom cut and imported from Israel.

The ancient surfaces and materials offer dramatic contra...