Warren Techentin Architecture

Pacific Palisades Residence

Pacific Palisades Residence
© Eric Staudenmaier
Pacific Palisades Residence
© Eric Staudenmaier

PACIFIC PALISADES RESIDENCE

Warren Techentin Architecture

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
David Fletcher

INTERIOR DESIGN
Tim Clarke

PHOTOGRAPHS
Eric Staudenmaier

LOCATION
United States

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

A series of steel tube and structural glass walls step back across the site to modify and define the spaces of an addition to an existing home.

Pacific Palisades Residence
© Eric Staudenmaier
Pacific Palisades Residence
© Eric Staudenmaier

It provides for a new kitchen, a master closet, a new stair, an office space, and a re-worked media room.

In this project, the clients evoked the scenario of the house’s use during a football game day as a way to understand desired flows throughout.

Seven loops, returns, and circuits were developed to facilitate and energize flow inside and out.

Pacific Palisades Residence
© Eric Staudenmaier
Pacific Palisades Residence
© Eric Staudenmaier

By rotating “the grain” of the house 90 degrees and running the walls front to back, the addition modulates the abutting spaces with natural light.

It provides needed lateral force resistance while maintaining visual privacy with the neighbors.

The placement of the walls also accentuates the front courtyard and helps structure openings with the use of the space.

While at night they provide a soft glow through the glass for dinner outdoors analogous to a Japanese lamp.

Pacific Palisades Residence
© Eric Staudenmaier


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