San Remo // ShubinDonaldson Architects

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/ Group + OperationsSet right into a steep hillside of Sullivan Canyon in Pacific Palisades, the San Remo Residence organizes stacked volumes towards the North with panoramic views of the pure panorama and the Getty past. The parti of the home consists of two vertical and horizontal volumes on a stone limestone plinth, rooted into the rugged hillside.

Robust vertical and horizontal strains of wooden and metal delineate the house’s define amongst the dense native flora that occupies the canyon, complimenting the wildness of nature’s patterns. The house’s southern edge is pulled away from the property line and recessed to permit southern mild to dive into the residence’s entry-level and the principle corridors.

A five-foot module is vertically built-in and rhythmically defines the glazing system with horizontal mullions extending the strains of the higher flooring to finish this diagrammatic rating on the North and aligned with the Afromosia wooden facade on the South./ Program + MaterialsThe program is stacked, oscillating on both sides of the principle stair occupying a central quantity clad in vertically slatted Afromosia wooden.

Set pleased with the stair, the master-suite fills the lengthy horizontal quantity on the east with flooring to ceiling glass and wrapped in Afromosia. The remaining bedrooms occupy the western vertical quantity clad with split-face Limestone, which continues towards the south the place the storage is situated. The general public areas occupy the decrease flooring of the house.

The primary dwelling, eating, and kitchen occupy the decrease Limestone quantity, which opens to the central patio and pool deck. A media room and workplace are situated on the entry-level opening to a glazed courtyard on the south with an Afromosia plinth overhanging for solar mitigation. The doorway is recessed down a large set of limestone steps and infilled with drought-tolerant plantings offering a courtyard protected against the uncovered bend within the approaching street./ Parts + DetailsWith the home set right into a steep north-facing hillside, fixing for tough mild circumstances deep within the dwelling areas was a central concern.

A number of distinctive options have been utilized for pulling pure mild into the stacked volumes, together with a stair that acts as a light-weight plenum operating parallel to a glass entry facade on the south. One other tectonic transfer is situated on the jap facet, the place the ceiling aircraft of the underside lounge is pulled off the jap stone wall, and a linear skylight is positioned.

Particular person rooms resembling mechanical areas, closets, and a wine room are buried into the hillside using the thermal mass as a performative characteristic./ Circulation + ExperienceA stable protecting entrance is introduced as one approaches the home by way of the principle drive. A split-face limestone plinth defines the storage, whereas a horizontal band of vertical Afromosia hovers over the principle entry.

Getting into the 5 foot-wide entrance door, one is situated on the intersection of the 2 major corridors. The primary, a three-story tall quantity, opens to the northern mild housing the principle stair, which accesses the storage and personal bedrooms above. The horizontal hall results in the media room, workplace, and right down to the dwelling areas beneath.

Each area is oriented towards the north, taking each benefit of the location’s distinctive canyon situation with flooring to ceiling glass in each operable and on operable circumstances. Transferring down the southern stair to the dwelling areas beneath, an unobstructed area comprises the dwelling, eating, wine room, and kitchen. Glass sliders throughout your entire north wall invite the skin in over the patio deck and pool./ ConclusionThe San Remo residence is a novel kind rigorously crafted to suit into the slender envelope and take advantage of from a tough web site.

The place the canyon presents its tough challenges buried into the hillside, the identical circumstances provide distinctive alternatives. The place the southern façade defends its edge, the north opens extensive, holding the sunshine and the views past like a baseball glove. With its easy and powerful materials pallet, the home provides concord with the encircling timber and shrubs and a rooted sense with the earth beneath.