Collection · Aoki + Vance · 2023
Slate Point Residence
Cantilevered eleven metres over the bluff.
The house
The structural glass corner took Aoki + Vance two years and three engineers to get signed off. Standing in it, the floor simply stops and the water is four hundred feet below with nothing in the way.
Everything else in the house is quiet by comparison, which is the point. The material palette is three items long: pale concrete, blackened steel, and white oak. There is no skirting anywhere in the building.
Shown by appointment only, accompanied.
What makes it
- Eleven-metre cantilever over the bluff edge
- Structural glass corner with no visible frame
- Three-material palette throughout
- Shortlisted, Pacific Coast Architecture Prize 2024
Photographs
Specification
What isin it
Interior
- Blackened steel stair, single stringer
- Full-height pivot doors
- Concealed climate control
- Cinema room
Exterior
- Infinity pool at the cliff edge
- Native bluff planting
- Garaging for four
- Cliff-path access to the shore
Services
- Ground-source heat pump
- Whole-house automation
- Battery storage
- Backup generator
Where it is
Vashon Bluff
Four hundred feet of cliff and the best light on this coast.
