2025 Cercy Residence
Project Overview
This landscape design balances functionality, natural aesthetics, and architectural harmony—bringing together practical site needs with a poetic connection to the surrounding mountain environment.
The circulation strategy allows for a comfortable 10-foot-wide snowplowing clearance around the house, ensuring year-round accessibility and ease of maintenance. From this foundation, the paths expand into a gentle network of trails and transitions, inviting exploration beyond the immediate dwelling area and into the broader beauty of the property.
The geometry of the layout is carefully harmonized with the home's architecture, using thoughtful shapes and offsets that respond to the building’s form and orientation. Lines and curves are not arbitrary—they echo the house, supporting a cohesive relationship between built and planted spaces.
Designed with flexibility in mind, the plan respects the existing site topography and earthwork banks. Final adjustments will be made on-site, ensuring the design aligns precisely with real-world conditions and opportunities that emerge during construction.
The planting concept supports and amplifies native vegetation, blending it with select ornamental species to enhance texture, seasonality, and resilience. This combination reinforces the site's natural character while introducing moments of designed beauty and biodiversity.
The result is a landscape that is functional, adaptive, and immersive—a place that feels anchored to its setting, easy to live with, and inspiring to walk through.
Masterplan
Reading Guide
To communicate the full vision of the landscape design, we’ve developed several layered visual readings of the masterplan. Each layer highlights a specific design intent and gives you the flexibility to explore the property’s layout through different lenses.
Moodboard
Visual inspiration Guide
This curated moodboard captures the aesthetic, material, and botanical intentions of the landscape design. Each slide represents a key theme, showcasing reference images that reflect the spirit of the site and the design philosophy. Together, they guide visual decision-making for plant selection, hardscaping, material tones, and seasonal interest.
Preview Renderings V2
Gallery – Updated Deck & Hot Tub Layout
This gallery presents an alternative patio design featuring a new location for the hot tub on a dedicated square deck. This layout improves circulation around the house and simplifies construction by replacing a concrete area with decking, reducing the need for excavation.
The patio area at the bottom of the stairs is shown with approximate sizing for now, pending on-site confirmation. Optional seating arrangements are included to illustrate the space potential and view orientation.
Hardscaping Overview by Zone
Design Overview & Feature Description
This document outlines the Phase 1 hardscaping strategy of the Creek Ranch landscape design, organized by the four primary zones of intervention around the house. Each zone is guided by architectural alignment and terrain logic, balancing function, visual coherence, and site feasibility.
The design approach is driven by architectural alignments, where dimensions follow the logic of placement rather than dictating layout. Alignments take precedence over exact measurements, ensuring visual consistency and functional harmony. Corners and transitions are defined using a strict 90° and 45° geometric system. All triangles integrated into the plan are isosceles right triangles (45-45-90), supporting cohesive forms and construction-friendly angles.
Each zone is presented with consistent categories: Alignment, Dimensions, and Materials, for ease of cross-referencing across the web platform and PDF documentation.
3. SOUTH – Valley View: Patios and Deck Side
3.0
OVERVIEW
Summary :
3.1 Main Deck
3.2 Landing Deck
3.3 Bedroom Patio
3.4 Secondary Deck
3.5 Corner Patio
3.6 Technical Corner
3.7 Plantation Box
3.8 Hot Tub Deck
3.1
Main Deck
Alignment Rules:
The MAIN DECK is already Built and is the reference for every further hardscaping construction.
Dimensions:
Approx. 34'10 x 20'
Materials:
Decking wood :
3.2 Landing
Deck
Alignment Rules:
The LANDING DECK Aligns between the two main deck central colums.
Dimensions:
Approx. 18' x 15'2"
Materials:
Decking wood :
Floating Tiles : 20"x20"
3.3 Bedroom Patio
Alignment Rules:
The BEDROOM PATIO is already Built and fill the corner of the house architecture near the master bedroom.
Dimensions:
Approx. 11'4" x 7'
Materials:
Stamped concrete
3.4 Secondary Deck
Alignment Rules:
The SECONDARY DECK Aligns with the Bedroom Patio
Dimensions:
Approx. 22' x 13’6”
Materials:
Decking wood :
Floating Tiles : 20"x20"
Plantation Boxes: Corten Steel
3.5
Corner Patio
Alignment Rules:
The CORNER PATIO is built of concrete slabs and steptones, the offset areas are filed with riverbed rocks. Every elements fits into an isoscele triangle aligned along the Bedroom Patio and the master bathroom corner.
Dimensions:
Approx. 32'8" x 23'1”
Materials:
Poured Concrete
Accent Slab
Riverbed Rocks
3.6
Technical Corner
Alignment Rules:
The TECHNICAL CORNER aligns with the isoscele triangle design of the corner patio and the gagage corner.
Dimensions:
Approx. 15'7" x 13'
Materials:
Poured Concrete
Dark Stained Corner Timber Beams
Dark Stained - Charred or Black timber
3.7
Plantation Box
Alignment Rules:
The PLANTATION BOX aligns with the bedroom patio, the corner patio slabs and the house garage corner.
Dimensions:
Approx. 19'7" x 13'
Materials:
Corten Steel
3.8
Hot Tub Deck
Alignment Rules:
The HOT TUB DECK aligns with the secondary patio and the plantation box.
Dimensions:
Approx. 13'10" x 13'6"
Materials:
Floating Tiles : 20"x20"
Plantation Box : Corten Steel
3.9
South Rock Garden
Alignment Rules:
The ROCK SOUTH GARDEN is design like an isoscele triangle. The lowest point is the longuest side of the triangle it aligns with the house garage corner
Dimensions:
Approx. 35' x 24'9"
Materials:
Boulders and plantation
