CANOPY: An Exploration of Light as Material

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CANOPY began with one question: What if this home was designed with the human experiences, stories, and memories imagined within it at the forefront, rather than the spaces it needed to contain them.

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With experience at the forefront, every movement and transition becomes intentional. Beginning at the tunneled, covered arrival to the sheltered landscapes between; from ever-changing light filtering above, through, and beneath the architecture to moments of gathering, retreat, exploration, play, and discovery. From this exploration, CANOPY emerged as both an idea and an organizing principle: the lens through which the home and the spaces between are experienced.

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The site became an active participant in shaping that experience. Surrounded by extraordinary views toward the mountains, water, and golf course, the home responds not with a singular orientation, but through a series of shifting relationships to its surroundings. The architecture turns, opens, frames, shelters, and reveals, allowing views and landscape to be encountered differently as one moves through the home. The result is not a single moment of arrival or one commanding view, but a sequence of experiences that unfold over time.