We collaborated with architect Jim Olson and Olson Kundig on a front-to-back condo that takes full advantage of its ground-level location by visually extending into the landscape at both ends of the unit.
We installed new, custom-made window walls at the more private end of the unit, enabling the bedrooms to visually expand into a walled garden, and at the more public end of the unit, where the main living spaces – kitchen and dining area, living area, and an open office space – extend out to a freshly landscaped patio and Lake Washington just beyond.
We framed dropped ceilings a foot lower than the full-height ceilings to create light coves that seem to float like clouds, each with concealed lighting that washes the plastered cove in soft light. The coves help define the spaces below them, while bathing the interior in diffuse light that echoes the sunlight that filters through clouds for much of the year.
The interior palette – white oak panels and casework, warm-toned plaster walls, and lightly troweled concrete floors – echoes the natural tones of the Pacific Northwest while remaining neutral enough to serve as a backdrop for the dynamic play of light, water, and clouds outside.
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