Single family residence

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Project • By BLOU INK • Private Houses

Monument House | Defined Through Reduction

Monument House is a residential concept developed around a simple question: what happens when a home is organized around what is removed rather than what is added? Rather than beginning with accumulation, more rooms, more square footage, or more visual complexity, the project explores reduction as a spatial strategy. At its center is a void: an interior garden that acts not as a feature, but as the organizing principle for the entire residence. BLOU INK BLOU INK Every decision within Monument House is structured around this central condition. Circulation, views, privacy, light, and sequence are all shaped through the relationship between built form and absence. The result is a home designed around clarity rather than excess.... More

Project • By Montalba Architects, Inc. • Private Houses

Oxnard Beach House

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