Rancho Del Bosque

The pavilions line up along a single axis, enjoying unbroken views across the valley’. The brief for the home was to create a retreat that would feel inseparable from its setting—one that responds to the contours, textures, and shifting light of the land. The design responds with a series of volumes rather than a single architectural gesture, prompting exploration in and out of the built spaces and curating a close experience of the landscape. Shaded, cobbled walkways link each pavilion, embedding circulation within the valley’s greenery. 

The main living pavilion is the largest of the five and supports a rooftop terrace with sweeping views. Living spaces below look through a full-height glazed elevation, past a lap pool towards the density of the terrain. A linear service building sits next to the main pavilion—a single-storey space holding kitchen and utility spaces. 

The four smaller pavilions hold separate bedrooms. Their curved facades, which face the back of the hill, create individual internal courtyards—lunar-shaped spaces that blend the air and sounds of the outside with the cool respite of the enclosed. A key component of the design is that the external circulation has been conceived as a stroll through the forest. Between each of the curved volumes, terraces, plateaus, and covered walkways allow residents to trace the terrain by moving through it at different levels. Balconies along the outer facade of each pavilion align with the height of surrounding treetops, inviting movement through foliage. All adds up to a place that lives as closely with landscape as possible—an experience of being immersed in the surrounding nature, rather than simply being in a house within nature.