TITAN Property Platinum Winner

2023

RO54

Entrant Company

Arshia Architects

Category

Architecture - Residential (Single)

Client's Name

Mike Parsee

Country / Region

United States

Perched on a hilltop in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Los Angeles basin, the project gently lands a dynamic building on top of a buried podium that replicates the natural topography that was once there before the area was subdivided for development. This hollow post-war neighborhood has been transforming gradually, overtaken by recent developments that rely on size rather than spatial quality. The concept set out to reduce the massing of a rather large project, for it to lodge within the neighborhood proportionally. It proposes an example of what can be offered within the confines of stringent regulations.

This project engages an exercise in spatial relationships to accelerate the programs of the house. It utilizes the split-level design to follow this topography of the hill and to connect the floor half-story plates. The plates form adjacencies, both visual and functional therefore allowing twice the utility of an otherwise dissected organization.

The design was informed by streamline automotive design, proposing every technology in the house to have discreet performance, allowing the sensory performance of the architectural space.

A courtyard that is created by daylighting the lower bedrooms from the buried podium, also acts as the rainwater runoff filtration system for the entire site. The project meets or exceeds stringent California green building and energy conservation standards such as low-flow plumbing systems, drought tolerant planting, rainwater filtration, photovoltaic integration, high efficiency building envelope and glazing, HERS rating of the mechanical system and more.

The interior concept for the project was based on a utilitarian approach to materials and palettes in contrast to the overall ambient approach of the design, where space overcame necessity. This balance of power proceeded in the backdrop of environmental sensitivity and minimal scarcity.

In the lighting design, point lights were used scarcely resulting in linearity and diffusion. The helm of which is the diffused stretch-fabric lighting that turned the living room into a stage for performances of the inhabitant’s lives.

Credits

Design Principal / Arshia Architects
Arshia Mahmoodi
Project Manager, Project Designer / Arshia Architects
Xinlei Li
Project Designer / Arshia Architects
Yuheng Huang
Project Designer / Arshia Architects
Fang Cui
Project Designer / Arshia Architects
Ruby Wu
Project Designer / Arshia Architects
Zhishan Liu
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