Hillside house

SAOTA’s Hillside home in Los Angeles is located immediately above Sunset Boulevard on a promontory just one over from Pierre Koenig’s landmark Stahl House. The site is a20 000 square foot estate, featuring 300-degree views over the LA skyline and the city basin below, and the design was conceived of more as a self-contained oasis rather than a conventional house.   The Stahl House served as a key point of departure. The forms and articulation of Hillside’sroof planes, which werepushed as far forward as possible so that they could create meaningful external covered living spaces, setitsarchitecture in dialogue with the iconic silhouette nearby and connect it to the drama of itscontext.   The projecting eaves a... More

An entrepreneur and family with a passion for health living requested a large home on their dramatically sloping 2-acre site. They specifically wanted an informal layout that could be woven into the topography of the property. Wanting to enjoy as much of the site as possible, the client requested the inclusion of steps and landscape pathways to allow for access to more distant parts of the steep site.   Situated on a promontory jutting into the canyon below, the hillside retreat boasts multiple vistas of the surrounding canyon and the Pacific Ocean beyond. Since covenants, conditions, and restrictions associated with the property allowed for only a single story above street level, many of the home’s rooms are located on a lowe... More

Casa Forbes is a single house that looks boldly on a hillside of Costa d'en Blanes with views over the entire Bay of Palma. In the way in which the hanging gardens of Babylon built a domesticated natural environment, the Casa Forbes provides the necessary horizontality in this seemingly impossible terrain.The outer enclosure of oblique steel slats cut kinetically sieves the landscape as you approach its entrance. After overcoming the bath of views that hides behind them, the vision escapes you towards the garden roof, a fifth façade that displays aromas and colors in concert with a paved solarium worthy of a glass of cava ... per day!To enter the house you have to dive through a staircase that descends to the main floor where the living roo... More

Drawing inspiration from the classic Falling Water house, the CAS team made efficient use of the slopes and natural terrain of Dacha for the design of the Neocribs Concrete glass modern home. Surrounded by woodland, the idea of this home was to create a natural sanctuary that would seamlessly blend in with its surroundings while providing great views. The CAS team managed to excellently execute this aesthetic by using a combination of concrete, glass and wood. The use of contradictory materials highlights the brilliant styling, and manages to create an end product that brilliantly fits in the contexts of its surroundings. http://www.comelite-arch.com/portfolio/neocribs-modern-concrete-glass-home-design/ More