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This project remodel features a digitally fabricated wooden entry courtyard screen with varying apertures, designed to mimic the old CMU decorative block walls.

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Nightingale

Project Size: 4,000 Square Feet

Narrative: The project is located in the prestigious Doheny Estates neighborhood within the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles. These lots were designed and built to provide incredible city views from each individual lot while maintaining larger estate lots for privacy. The existing home had the intentions of the American classic Mid-Century style which had been comprised in the late 80’s early 90’s with a postmodern remodel.

The project naturally became, in part, a re-envisioning that would reincorporate open floor plans, integration with nature, passive solar, separation of public/private spaces, and the needs of the American Family. A lot has changed in the last sixty years since this home was originally built and the Mid-Century movement began, therefore the project needed to feature contemporary elements in technology and culture while maintaining it's innovative use of materials.

Status: Unbuilt
Location: Los Angeles, CA, US
Firm Role: Architect

Small green areas are inserted throughout the project. Most notably between the kitchen area and the bedrooms, separating the public and private spaces.

In order to create a connection between the interior and exterior in a true Mid-Century manner, the ample glazing in this project is now replaced with movable glazing walls while the exposed roof joists extend outward, creating a trellis like structure at the end of the roof to further enhance the passive solar qualities of the home.