House in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, 2009

Complete renovation of a 940 sq ft 1951 house. Located on the West Hollywood Hills the house is located on the highest section of the property.  The very private front faces East while the back faces West to an open landscape of hills that combine subtropical vegetation with a Mediterranean feeling and bathed in the afternoon light  

The slanted windows that open to the patio continuous from the roof to the ground surface expand the view and creating continuity between indoor and outdoor. The windows expand the interior space in both a real and virtual way. The lower windows are operable in order to create a very effective cross ventilation with the high windows that face the street.

A new transitional entry space between street front and back patio defines the entrance to the house creating simultaneously a parking enclosure. These spaces were defined by a z configuration in plan with planes made of spaced California red wood slats creates a visual filter that provides privacy.  

The retaining walls in the hillside garden and patio area were totally re built and reconfigured creating a lower patio framed by la landscape of local plants that  and a ground treatment of railroad ties and ground cover provide complete privacy for an outdoor shower.

The house is organized in a fluid relationship between indoor and outdoor and as a sequence alternating between open, semi-enclosed and enclosed spaces from the street all the way to the lower part of the site.