Archinect - News2024-11-21T19:26:52-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150233287/the-ladg-designs-residential-compound-with-art-studio-in-highland-park
The LADG designs residential compound with art studio in Highland Park Sean Joyner2020-10-15T18:50:00-04:00>2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/17/17821e53529fa3c18202430217f089b4.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150002934/talking-intra-office-communication-with-ladg" target="_blank">The Los Angeles Design Group</a> (The LADG) has completed <em>House in
Los Angeles 1</em>, an art studio and residential compound for a pair of professional
visual artists, a painter and a photographer. The project contains an addition to the clients' existing mid-century home, a guest house that provides studio space for their work, and dedicated structures for exhibitions and events.</p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8f/8f974d28f3474def281f972b8aa08ca1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8f/8f974d28f3474def281f972b8aa08ca1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=514"></a></p></figure><figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/35/35b52b167c2a86d3a69c76c151fdf2f7.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/35/35b52b167c2a86d3a69c76c151fdf2f7.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=514"></a></figure></figure><p>"Our project defies and reorganizes some of the architectural tropes associated with LA
suburbia," says Claus Benjamin Freyinger, co-founder and co-principal of The LADG in a statement. "It’s not a
single house with a unified program, meant to contain a sleeping family at night, who commute
off to work and school lives in the morning. It’s a collection of buildings that integrates work,
living, and communal activities around the livelihoods of two artists."</p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/dd/dd399a2f20d213ecb3e392c8ff62164e.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/dd/dd399a2f20d213ecb3e392c8ff62164e.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=514"></a></p></figure><figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/2c/2cb4cc577b295b48d698b899d84bf3b6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/2c/2cb4cc577b295b48d698b899d84bf3b6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=514"></a></figure></figure><p>The structures are connected by a series of freestanding walls. "May’s residential designs are
remarkable because of the way walls and interior elements appear...</p>