Venice CA
Architecture, Construction, Landscape, Entitlements
Completed 2019
2020 AIA|LA Residential Architecture Merit Award
Photos: Eric Staudenmaier
Each house has its own identity and occupies a distinct parcel of land with a pedestrian gate at the sidewalk and roll-up door for parking access from the alley. The X and Y houses face the street, while the Z house is behind adjacent to the alley. Two thirty-foot tall L-shaped plaster walls are the primary organizational elements. These windowless walls separate the houses from one another and form an axial passageway from the street to the alley house. The houses vary in size, and each has a unique typological character: Live/Work, Family and Loft. Private roof patios, shielded from one another by the placement of roof structures and the sloped roof of the alley house, occupy the top level of all three houses.