Tucked into a wedge of land along California’s Monterey coast, the house invites warm sand and seaside breezes into its interior. Upon approach, a Corten steel screen demarcates a clear division between inside and outside. As one moves through the project, the moments where that clarity of division is skillfully disrupted—for instance, where the beach-facing windows turn a corner, the long Pacific view uninhibited by any structural support—reveal with delight the sense of connection that the home is ultimately centered on. The house is positioned on the very edge of its beach-side plot, and a glass door slides open to step almost immediately onto the soft sand, the environment lending the home the richness of its tactile experience.

Inside, the bedroom floats in a mezzanine overlooking the generous living space and ocean view, a soft curtain of gauzy linen lining its perimeter to gently draw a separation when privacy is needed. Slender tiles of a true Seafoam green line the bathroom walls, and throughout the house, the horizontal lines of board-formed concrete settle the eye; a gesture to the long line of the Pacific horizon.