Hinoki House - A House with Two Gardens
Coming soon to Asheville, North Carolina, a luxurious home in the mountains for a pair of empty nesters, their frequent house guests, and their adult children’s growing families to visit. The house is sited on a South facing meadow, surrounded by woods near the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The home stretches across the landscape on an East-West axis in order to take advantage of the plentiful sun and the views across the meadow to the mountain ridge beyond. The house takes its inspiration from the pure forms of agricultural and rural buildings across the region, and is heavily influenced by the traditional Japanese approach to residential buildings in the countryside.
The Western entry canopy is flanked by the garage and the first of two garden walls.
The Ocean Garden mediates the divide between the Appalachian woods and the formality of the home.
The Mountain Garden is framed by the Moon Gate, marking the way to the front door.
View from the Mountain Garden.
The Great Room.
View from the screen porch looking back to the Great Room.
The patio, sunken slightly in the manner of the Japanese engawa.
The main bedroom suite is flooded with South light, and flanked with bookcase and windows on three walls.
Plan view.