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Dimmick Drive Houses

Dimmick Drive Houses
© Eric Staudenmeier

Dimmick Drive Houses 

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ARCHITECTS
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PROJECT TEAM
Belinda Lee, Dorian Booth

AREA
4000 FT²

YEAR
2023

LOCATION
Los Angeles, United States

CATEGORY
Residential Architecture, Houses

The Dimmick Drive Houses are a pair of single-family residences on an extremely steep lot in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Dimmick Drive Houses
© Eric Staudenmeier
Dimmick Drive Houses
© Eric Staudenmeier

At 2,000sf each, the pair are modest in size and have an unusual four-story configuration to minimize impact on the hillside.

Each is composed of a pair of stacked floorplates elevated over a concrete base housing the garage and an elevated outdoor dining patio.

Dimmick Drive Houses
© Eric Staudenmeier
Dimmick Drive Houses
© Eric Staudenmeier

The second-floor void splits the façade into a pair of smaller masses (garage and house) more suited to the scale of the surrounding residential neighborhood.

The fourth level cantilever overglazing spans the width of the front façade at the living level to capture views west over downtown Los Angeles to the ocean.

Dimmick Drive Houses
© Eric Staudenmeier
Dimmick Drive Houses
© Eric Staudenmeier

The pair feature a loft-like main level that is open and continuous from the front living and dining area to a double-height kitchen facing the backyard. While both have a similar distribution of large and private rooms, the spatial configurations vary.

The lower house is composed of shifted floorplates that cantilever over the lower levels, and the upper house is a set of rotated frames that interlock between the third and fourth levels.

Dimmick Drive Houses
© Eric Staudenmeier


Dimmick Drive Houses
© Eric Staudenmeier
Dimmick Drive Houses
© Eric Staudenmeier
Dimmick Drive Houses
© Eric Staudenmeier


Dimmick Drive Houses
Floor Plan 1
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Floor Plan 2
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Floor Plan 3
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Floor Plan 4


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