House 023 — Connect 12 Menlo Park

The Menlo Park Connect 12 was Connect Homes' 23rd house. To accommodate a narrow, non-conforming lot with the size home the client required, Connect created a custom solution. The long, thin bar of the house turns 90 degrees to engage with the front yard and display a clear cedar wood interior. A steel-stringer stair leads to the second floor. Elsewhere, the house is primarily about side yard engagement, most apparent in a South-facing pocket dining deck. An entire wall of glass retracts in-wall, connecting the entire extents of the kitchen to an outdoor eating area. In front, a prefab steel-frame Connect Carport is located under a massive heritage oak. This part of Menlo Park is known for it's heritage oak trees. Photos are included of delivery day, showing how the house was 90% completed in the factory. Negotiating the oak tree with large modules required the use of exotic methods.