The layout of SAW’s The Middle Half is deceptively simple: It masses rooms around a central common space with panoramic views of the hills in Mill Valley, north of San Francisco. But until its recent renovation, the 2,746-square-foot midcentury home had a segmented layout of small rooms and a congested core. SAW preserved the home’s outermost rooms and blew out the middle, clearing the way for natural views throughout the house. The remaining rooms were then connected with a new clarity.
“Often when thinking about preserving a thing—a structure, an object, a landscape, a city—one talks about preserving its ‘heart’ or its ‘core,’” Dan
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