Sundial Home

Before settling on Sundial House, this home carried many names — each inspired by the movement of light through space, tracing time and shaping the quiet rhythm of daily life. In its final form, light and shadow hold equal presence: one revealing, the other retreating, creating moments of calm, contrast, and ritual.
Our client, with his MIT architecture background, brought a deep intellectual curiosity to every conversation. Together, we pursued a rigorous conceptual framework, always aligning it with the emotional experience of home. The stair and circulation spine became the
project’s conceptual and spatial anchor — a vertical sundial marking the passage of light and time through the heart of the home.
Set on a through lot overlooking San Francisco, the residence occupies a steep slope shaped by historic cut and fill — an unsettled terrain that became both challenge and opportunity: to root the structure deeply, extend it into the hillside, and connect city to soil.

CONTRACTOR oak leaf Construction
INTERIOR DESIGNER FQ Designs Group
lighting designer tucci lighting
Muralist Joset Medina
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Townsend Brown
CIVIL ENGINEER Green Civil Engineering
LANDSCAPE designer orca
METAL fabricator lust
av mwa
survey foresight
geotechnical romig
civil Tarnoff Engineering
Greenrater Healthier Dwelling
Greywater Dig Coop
Historic Analysis Anna Rose
PHOTOGRAPHER Henry Gao