Around eight years ago, Ken Goto purchased an Edwardian house in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. The property included a separate structure behind the main residence, not visible from the street: a narrow, three-story stack of volumes with a facade of glass, steel, and ipe, snugly fit into the tight, rectangular backyard. Charmed by the hidden contemporary edifice, Goto found the architects—husband-and-wife team Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott—and asked them to design a small family vacation house on a craggy meadow in the hills of Napa County.
Goto, an engineer who has worked for Apple and Microsoft, envisioned a one-story structure that would sit lightly on the ground, unusual in appearance and in striking contrast to the rugged landscape. “I very much like structure and straight lines,” says Goto, “so my original concept was more of a modern box.”
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