Californian studio XTEN Achitecture has designed the Open-house project that was completed in 2009. This 4,500 square foot two story home is located in Hollywood Hills, an affluent and exclusive neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. This residence is embedded into a sharply sloping hillside property, a challenging site that led to the creation of a house that is both integrated into nature and open to the city beyond. The modern project includes open-house architecture, embedded into a sloping property, which is an interesting architecture solution. In this way, the house is perfectly integrated into the landscape. It is precisely this feature of the gorgeous minimalist architecture house makes it possible to create gardens on two levels.
The structure and detailing of the house is more complex than it appears. Extensive grading and terraced retaining walls were developed to extend the first floor living level into the hillside and to create a garden terraces on each level. With regard to materials, the glass prevails here and we can meet it anywhere in the interior and exterior in a variety of renditions. There is a great fireplace with minimalist forms in the open space living area. Thanks to its open form of the premises, the modern architecture house offers great extras.
Photos by: Art Gray
