Oxnard

Located directly on the beach, this multi-family summer home involves three basic design concepts: Public Facade, Core Circulation, and Screening Neighbors. Facing the public street, a dominant brise soleil obscures views to pedestrians, but leaks sunlight to interior rooms. This fenestrated privacy feature is expressed on the facade as a volumetric mass floating above the recessed garage and dematerialized entry. Beyond the glass-box entry, a circulation core pierces all three-stories and isolates superfluous traffic to a center; the stairs are flooded with natural light from striated cuts above and vertical plate glass. The core is considered the connective tissue, both spatially and socially, as the stairs are frequented by family member... More