Native studio Nameless Architects has accomplished a residence with a concrete plinth that cantilevers off a mountainside in Los Angeles.
The Olancha Drive home was completed in 2022 within the Mount Washington district of Northeast Los Angeles. It was designed in response to the positioning’s steep angle – which reaches 45 levels in some areas – and the views afforded by the vantage level.
The hillside parcel challenged the design crew to restrict the horizontal footprint – balancing the 1,000-square-foot (93 sq. metre) home on friction piles pushed into the earth. The crew, in flip, stacked the areas top-down.
“The sequence of area and program is vertical not horizontal, which is an inversion of typical residential expertise in California that blends inside and out of doors,” the Nameless Architects crew instructed Dezeen.
From the road, the home is appropriately “nameless” and personal.
The house’s storage is on the highest ground, functioning like a big field truss wrapped in a display screen of vertical gray wooden. A tunnel-like staircase leads right down to the “entrance yard” – which is a walkable roof terrace area, outlined by a black metallic railing.
Framed by V-shaped columns, a trapezoidal swimming pool is tucked beneath the cantilevered storage. Two sq. skylights within the deck open the primary stage to the solar.
The primary stage seems as a floating field wrapped in white metallic and is related to the hillside by a concrete mass.
“Through the use of solely metal and concrete, the development strategies and supplies are associated extra intently to business constructing as an alternative of typical residential wooden building,” the crew defined, selecting to reveal the construction, in addition to important electrical and plumbing infrastructure, as a visible part for the inside design.
The dwelling areas of the one-bedroom home act as one massive room with moveable partitions and sliding doorways dividing the general public areas from the bed room and media room. A wall of folding glass doorways opens the interiors to a balcony that runs the size of the home.
Because the dwelling has no facet home windows, all the areas are oriented towards the Los Angeles skyline.
Whereas accessed from above, the pool turns into the focus of the primary stage with a window from the kitchen into the water. The window brings gentle into the interiors and breaks up the stable concrete wall.
“Including a window allowed the pool to grow to be a characteristic even when it was not getting used for recreation, taking part in into the will for components of the home to be dual-purpose,” the crew stated.
“Twin-purpose components are crucial in small areas. If components of the design can carry out a number of features, then the area will really feel bigger as a result of it’s able to doing extra.”
The uncooked structural components had been offset by pure wooden partitions and cupboards and white oak panels which might be “plain sliced to provide the wooden a extra natural high quality.”
Chosen by Sarah Rosenhaus Inside Design, the comfortable furnishings and materials designate a color for every area and add heat and texture.
The basement stage comprises barrels for rainwater assortment.
Close by, Nameless Architects cantilevered one other home off a hillside, however the studio additionally encircled a mature cypress tree with the bed room and wrapped the house with cedar. In Mexico, structure studio LBR&A cantilevered a steel-clad home to minimise the influence on the panorama.
The images is by Taiyo Wantanabe and Marcia Prentice.
Challenge credit:
Structure: Nameless Architects
Inside design: Sarah Rosenhaus Inside Design
