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.
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.
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.
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 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 kitchenConsidering a project like this?
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