Sunol Residence, California size: 5950 square feet client: Residence landscape designer: completion: 2006 This newly constructed home is comprised of a modern style main house with separate office and garage buildings. Greenroofs (depth 5.5") were designed by the architect for all the buildings, and sit atop sloping and curved barrel roofs. The main house roof slopes down from its peak, and ends at a retaining wall in front, which meets a native soil slope. Despite the very different soil depths and composition, one of the first objectives was to blur the distinction of greenroof and native soil so that from the front, house and front landscape appear as one continuous uphill slope with no demarcation line evident at the retaining wall

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