Located on a flat, semi-urban site in the design district of Los Angeles, this two-story residence is compact, yet designed to give a sense of expanded volume. A double-story lens-like curvilinear void runs the length of the residence and creates aberrant relationships among internal living areas, and between the inside of the house and out. A curved, 52-foot skylight aperture is extended by the axis of the pool and its curved geometry is inflected in the pool. A polycarbonate sunshade is arrayed at an offset from the skylight providing refracted daylight within. Its compound lens-like form maximizes the apparent interior volume, while creating new associations to exterior spaces.
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Global Future Design Awards 2021
Birch Residence
Residential Architecture Small Family Built
Firm
Griffin Enright Architects
Architect/Designer
Margaret Griffin
Design Team
General Contractor – D+Con / Structural Engineer – Taylor & Syfan / M/E/P Engineer – Shamim Engineering Consultants / Interior Designer – Laura Birch & Griffin Enright Architects / Landscape Architect – Griffin Enright Architects
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Country
United States
Photographer/Copyright
©Benny Chan, FotoWorks
Located on a flat, semi-urban site in the design district of Los Angeles, this two-story residence is compact, yet designed to give a sense of expanded volume. A double-story lens-like curvilinear void runs the length of the residence and creates aberrant relationships among internal living areas, and between the inside of the house and out. A curved, 52-foot skylight aperture is extended by the axis of the pool and its curved geometry is inflected in the pool. A polycarbonate sunshade is arrayed at an offset from the skylight providing refracted daylight within. Its compound lens-like form maximizes the apparent interior volume, while creating new associations to exterior spaces.
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