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Pittman Dowell Residence

Pittman Dowell Residence

Pittman Dowell Residence

Michael Maltazn Architecture, FreelandBuck

ARCHITECTS
Michael Maltazn Architecture, FreelandBuck

PHOTOS
Iwan Baan (7)

BUDGET
$1M - 5M

SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

YEAR
2009

LOCATION
La Crescenta-Montrose, CA, United States

TYPE
Residential › Private House

Pittman Dowell Residence
Pittman Dowell Residence

This single family, one bedroom home is generated largely by the context of its unique hillside site which was originally planned as a 4 house development by Richard Neutra.

Pittman Dowell Residence
Pittman Dowell Residence

Though the grading for each of the building pads was completed, Neutra built just one house at the top of the hill.

The proposed house sits below, and references the existing house through calculated views that generate the geometry and incisions into the envelope.

Playing off the extroverted transparency of modernism, the house turns decidedly inwards on a complex courtyard that is in turn captured by adjacent rooms.

Pittman Dowell Residence
Pittman Dowell Residence

The spatial sequence unfolds around the courtyard, an extension of the winding drive that circles up to the building pad.

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