Klopf Architecture, Arterra Landscape Architects and Henry Calvert of Calvert Ventures Designed and built a new warm, modern, Eichler-inspired, open, indoor-outdoor home on a deeper-than-usual San Mateo Highlands property where an original Eichler house had burned to the ground.

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Architects: Klopf Architecture

Location: San Mateo, CA, United States

Architects In Charge: John Klopf, AIA, Klara Kevane, Yegvenia Torres-Zavala

Area: 2606.0 ft2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Mariko Reed

Landscape Architect: Arterra Landscape

Architects Contractor: Henry Calvert of Calvert Ventures
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From the architect. Klopf Architecture, Arterra Landscape Architects and Henry Calvert of Calvert Ventures Designed and built a new warm, modern, Eichler-inspired, open, indoor-outdoor home on a deeper-than-usual San Mateo Highlands property where an original Eichler house had burned to the ground.

© Mariko Reed

The owners wanted multi-generational living and larger spaces than the original home offered, but all parties agreed that the house should respect the neighborhood and blend in stylistically with the other Eichlers. At first the Klopf team considered re-using what little was left of the original home and expanding on it. But after discussi...