Pavilion opens to garden and sky

Pavilion opens to garden and sky

A room for all seasons, this sunroom addition opens a smallhouse to its garden and provides a bright, sheltered place for year-round entertaining.Photo: Addition attaches to rear of one-storystucco house, sitting on square concrete slab. Prefabricated fireplace and garden doors angle across opposite cornersPhoto: Mexican floor tiles follow angle offireplace, extending--after step up-- into kitchen. During cold months, owners close doors to kitchenExposed rough-sawn redwood framing gives the room a tropicallook, and the exposed ceiling beams are convenient for mounting a track lighting system. Leaving eaves at both roof levels unsheathed allows for maximum daylight and views.Robert H. Waterman of Palo Alto, California, designed thesunroom.With glass in three walls, in two sides of its hip roof, and inclerestory windows beneath a raised section of roof, the 18-foot-square room has more glazing than energy codes allow. To isolate it thermally from the heated part of the house. French doors close it off from the kitchen.

Photo: Mexican floor tiles follow angle offireplace, extending--after step up-- into kitchen. During cold months, owners close doors to kitchen