This is a full-time beach house for a car passionate family of four situated across from Burnt Cedar Beach in Incline Village, Nevada on the north shore of Lake Tahoe. Prior to being pulled up the hill to flumes and rails destined for Virginia City, logs were staged here as the mountains around the lake shore were logged during the silver mining ye...
Architecture firm
Faulkner Architects
Location
Incline Village, Nevada, USA
Photography
Joe Fletcher Photography
Principal architect
Greg Faulkner
Design team
Greg Faulkner, Darrell Linscott, Jenna Shropshire, Owen Wright, May Kemp , Richard Szitar, Gordon Magnin
Interior design
EKR Design Studio
Construction
Crestwood Construction
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › House
Faulkner Architects reveals Viewfinder House in Truckee, California, a home designed to capture dramatic mountain views of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Project name
Viewfinder House
Architecture firm
Faulkner Architects
Location
Truckee, California, USA
Principal architect
Gregory Faulkner
Design team
Gregory Faulkner, Principal, Breanne Penrod, Project Manager
Collaborators
Geotechnical Engineer: NV5
Interior design
Rory Torrigiani, Natalie Zirbel
Civil engineer
Shaw Engineering
Structural engineer
Linchpin Engineering
Environmental & MEP
Sugarpine Engineering
Lighting
Faulkner Architects
Construction
Glennwood Mountain Homes
Material
Wood, Glass, Stone, Metal
Typology
Residential › House
Set amidst a volcanic boulder field in a pine and fir forest, Creek House is a family retreat that inhabits an existing outcrop clearing at the edge of the spring fed Martis Creek. Near the base of Lookout Mountain at Northstar California Resort, the house is conceived in plan as three directional bars that slide between and alongside the boulders...
Architecture firm
Faulkner Architects
Location
Truckee, California, USA
Photography
Joe Fletcher Photography
Design team
Greg Faulkner, Darrell Linscott, Jenna Shropshire, Owen Wright, Richard Szitar
Interior design
CP Interiors
Construction
Jones Corda Construction
Typology
Residential › House
A luxuriant forest of Jeffrey and sugar pine mixed with white and red fir covers this two acre site at roughly 6,300 feet above sea level in the Martis Valley near the north shore of Lake Tahoe. Gently sloped, the site falls toward the south with views to the Northstar California ski resort.
Project name
Forest House
Architecture firm
Faulkner Architects
Location
Truckee, California, USA
Photography
Joe Fletcher Photography
Design team
Gregory Faulkner, Principal. Breanne Penrod, Project Manager
Interior design
Rory Torrigiani, Natalie Zirbel
Civil engineer
Shaw Engineering
Structural engineer
CFBR Structural Group
Environmental & MEP
Sugarpine Engineering (Mechanical Engineer), Sugarpine Engineering (Electrical Engineer), Collaborators NV5 (Geotechnical Engineer)
Lighting
Faulkner Architects
Construction
Glennwood Mountain Homes
Typology
Residential › House
The building site had a significant influence on the design for this house. Layered with intense geologic history at the base of a three-million-year-old volcano, the site is a north-facing 20-degree slope with equal parts refuge and prospect at 6,300 feet above mean sea level.
Project name
Lookout House
Architecture firm
Faulkner Architects
Location
Truckee, California, USA
Photography
Joe Fletcher Photography
Design team
Gregory Faulkner, Christian Carpenter, Jenna Shropshire, Gordon Magnin, Darrell Linscott, Breanne Penrod, Garrett Faulkner
Interior design
CLL Concept Lighting Lab, LLC
Civil engineer
Shaw Engineering
Structural engineer
CFBR Structural Group
Environmental & MEP
MSA Engineering Consultants
Lighting
CLL Concept Lighting Lab, LLC
Construction
Rickenbach Development and Construction, Inc.
Material
Concrete, glass, wood, steel
Typology
Residential › House
The clients are a couple of environmental scientists who, along with their two sons, relocated from the Oakland Hills to the summer climate of Orinda. Their commitment to sustainability, including a request for net-zero energy performance annually, was evident throughout the design process. A three-bedroom program began as a remodel of a 1954 ranch...
Project name
Miner Road House
Architecture firm
Faulkner Architects
Location
Orinda, California, USA
Photography
Joe Fletcher Photography; Drone Promotions (aerial)
Design team
Greg Faulkner, Christian Carpenter, Jenna Shropshire, Owen Wright, Darrell Linscott, Richard Szitar, Pete Austin, Ben Lueck, Glenn Lutz
Collaborators
Bob Hodas Acoustic Analysis (Acoustics), Garrett Faulkner (3D Model)
Interior design
Faulkner Architects with DZINE Concept
Civil engineer
Lea & Braze Engineering
Structural engineer
CFBR Structural Group
Environmental & MEP
Davis Energy Group
Landscape
Thuilot Associates
Construction
Ethan Allen Construction
Typology
Residential › House
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