HILLSBOROUGH HOUSE 1

Hillsborough, California

1998

The house consists of two long intersecting wings, which divide the site into four quadrants, each with a different programmatic function.  One wing is made of poured-in-place concrete, the other cement plaster. The concrete wing, containing the social functions and a two-story art gallery, is enclosed by a vaulted copper roof and terminates in a stone terrace that reaches toward the bay. As the site is ringed with trees, the house is organized in a way that divides the open middle ground, creating distinctly separate exterior spaces in the voids between building and landscape.

Jim Jennings’s buildings adhere to timeless principles of form and order, proportion and harmony.

San Francisco Focus 02/97