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2024 IID 🏆 Awards

Gold Winner | AlpIce | MINARC

Located in the Hollywood Hills sits the ALPICE Home (Alpine & Iceland) from award-winning design firm, Minarc. The ALPICE Home places focus on simplicity, sustainability, and functionality. Inspired by nature, the design stimulates senses via subtly contrasting interior spaces. Light streams through expansive windows, enhancing the home’s fluidity and blurring distinctions between interior and exterior.

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Gold 🏆 Winner
International Interior Design Awards 2024

AlpIce
Housing Interior Built

Firm
MINARC

Designer
Erla Ingjaldsdottir

Design Team
MINARC, ERLA Construction

Location
Los Angeles

Country
United States

Photographer/Copyright
Art Gray

A mid-level entryway accesses the study and outdoor sitting area, two guest bedrooms, a bathroom and a laundry area. One can descend the glass-walled staircase to the guest suite with ensuite bathroom. The lower level includes a spacious family room fronted with sliding glass walls that open to the outdoor deck and pool area. Alternatively, ascending the staircase accesses living and dining areas and a well-appointed master suite, all of which are surrounded with large windows. Sliding glass doors access two large balconies offering panoramic views. The deck considerably expands the living space year-round thanks to California’s temperate climate. Also included is a rooftop patio with built-in grill and cooking area to maximize space while providing views of the surrounding landscape.

The ALPICE Home boasts a striking accent wall of rough obsidian rock and flowing sand conceived by Minarc Owner and Principal Designer, Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir. Designed to embody “New Earth, New Life,” this reddish-black sand and rock mural represents lava and functions to please the eye while extending Minarc’s concept of ‘bringing the outside, in’ via natural elements within the home. The wall represents the design ethos of the home, with volcanic activity expressing earth’s continuous movement toward new life. Additionally, intentionally placed lava rocks accompany the staircase, highlighted with custom lighting.