Jackson Family Retreat / Fougeron Architecture

Located in the Big Sur area of Northern California, Jackson Family Retreat is a 230 sqm modernist structure weekend house for a family.

Architects: Fougeron Architecture
Location: Big Sur, California, USA
Photographs: Richard Barnes

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From the architects:

The building is composed of four volumes made of different interwoven materials that create visually and spatially complex exterior and interior spaces. The main volume, clad in standing seam copper, runs parallel to the canyon. Its thin butterfly roof sits delicately above a band of extruded channel glass, connected to the roof structure by thin rods that are invisible from the exterior……

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