Swatt + Partners has designed Moss Rock, a glass box home office that floats above a wooded nine-acre property in Healdsburg, California, supported by two vertical concrete slabs and framed entirely in glass to merge the workspace with the surrounding Douglas fir forest.
The project occupies a rural site in Dry Creek Valley, within California’s northern wine country, where the existing two-storey house was also designed by Swatt + Partners back in 2008. The new owners commissioned the Bay Area studio to add a dedicated home office, separated from the main house and positioned to minimise impact on the landscape. The result is a rectangular building that sits west of the primary dwelling and spans two different topographies at once.
A pair of cast-in-place concrete cores carry the structure, allowing part of the building to float over a flat pad while the rest extends beyond a steep downward slope at the southwest corner. The studio describes the office as a crisp wood-framed glass box that hovers above…..