Moraga ADU
A 640 sq ft custom ADU in Moraga — designed by YCD Studio for a Lamorinda homeowner who wanted independent guest quarters with a real connection to the garden. Stucco walls, a cantilevered shed roof with exposed wood soffit, and clerestory glazing that pulls daylight deep into the open plan.
The ADU in its landscape
The ADU from the lawn
The cantilevered roof and wood soffit
Inside, in daylight
A 640 sq ft detached ADU on a wooded Lamorinda lot. Designed and permitted as a custom build — a stucco volume under a cantilevered shed roof with exposed wood soffit, opening wide to the garden through clerestory glazing.
Looking up — roof, sky, hillside
Wood soffit and overhang
The plan is organized as a single open volume — living, dining, and kitchen flow together at one end, with the bedroom and bath tucked privately at the other. Clerestory windows admit daylight from above; wide doors open the room to the patio.
Afternoon inside
A vertical detail
Light on a surface
One material language, inside and out — light oak floors, white walls, and a wood soffit that runs from the interior straight out under the cantilevered shed roof. The roof line is what holds the whole composition together. Photography by Clay …
The bedroom, with windows on two sides
The kitchenThe ADU in its landscapeThe ADU from the lawnThe cantilevered roof and wood soffitInside, in daylightLooking up — roof, sky, hillsideWood soffit and overhangAfternoon insideA vertical detailLight on a surfaceThe bedroom, with windows on two sidesThe kitchenLike what you see?
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