In a dense patch of Culver City lies Second House, the newest home built by the Los Angeles and New York-based architecture office of FreelandBuck, run by David Freeland and Brennan Buck. Given the fact that the home is on a small lot without the affordance of views to the nearly Baldwin Hills, the house was designed to turn inward as a means of encouraging dynamic tensions between interior spaces and small courtyards. Taking a moment to read the two floor plans (below) illustrates the complexity achieved within such a small footprint.
Distinctions between interior and exterior spaces are intentionally blurry, but are made a little bit more legible by the choice of materials. Tightveined grey limestone is used on exterior flooring, for instance, while white stained knotty pine is used for interior spaces. The weaving of the two makes exploring the home much more dynamic than one might expect from a two-bedroom home.
In this way, Second House delightfully recalls the spatial operations made famous by the architects of the Case Study House movement, who, from the 1940's to the 1960's, developed strategies for producing small yet dynamic homes that responded to the mild climate of Southern California.
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Nice approach to limited space.
Note to editors; It would help is you would place pictures in the proper angle of vision. Took a while where in the plans were the picture taken, they are mirrored.
no, they're not.
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