Red Tail Ranch Residence

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 Red Tail Ranch Residence
Pamela Burton & Company joined forces with Frederick Fisher and Partners to work on a hilltop, wind-swept residence in the Santa Ynez Valley above Santa Barbara.  The home is situated in a paradigmatic California landscape of golden rolling hills with live oaks and valley oaks.  We wanted the residence to look like it had always been there and to feel like part of the mountaintop.  We accomplished this goal by creating a garden in which the house reclines comfortably into the landscape.  We placed on the property a dozen new oak trees that create shadows and thresholds through which the building can be viewed.  In order to make an elegant and effective landscape, the trick was to introduce drought-tolerant grasses and a minimum number of trees to blend the graded slopes into the rolling hills.

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