Plump white walls and undulating ceilings can be found inside this house near San Francisco, which has been updated by design studio OPA to feature cloud-like forms.
The owners of the three-floor home recruited OPA to create interiors that could provide "a release from the conformity of the outside world".
This prompted the local studio to incorporate a series of unusual, billowing forms into the rooms, giving the project its nickname Softie.
Softie features cloud-shaped interventions on the interior (top) and exterior (above)
"Why can't architecture be more like nature, changeable, varied and uninhibited," questioned the studio, which is led by Luke Ogrydziak and Zoë Prillinger.
"The clouds scatter freely throughout the house and dissolve and soften it in different ways. They erode and blur the order of [the house's] rational modernist grid, creating a sense of space that floats and drifts." Clouds are referenced immediately at Softie's front door, where a set of bulging, white steps lead into the interior.
Ceilings inside undulate like a thick blanket of clouds. Photo by Naaro
Here, the studio has overlaid gently sloping architectural features on top of the home's existing structural shell to cause as little disruption as possible.
"Our solution tactically selects key areas to soften, thus creating an overall ambience without literally reworking every aspect of the existing house," the studio explained.
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