Math principles applies to every house design, but this Victorian house uses it a little bit further with several major additions to comprehensively include the garden. The geometric form that goes well with the back of the house which means that it serves more like an inseparable extension of it. Its edges are soft and emphasizing the malleability of the zinc cladding and the slight billows in its surface. The resulting look resembles that of tailored garment turned inside out exposing a complex structure of pleated seams. The kitchen with a waist-high working surface on one side is separated from the living space with a clad in seamless black granite. Connection to the garden is provided with granite terraces that directly leads to it. Design by: Studio Octopi

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The project is located at the edge of Angeles forest, Los Angeles, and encompasses 6 acres of land. The surrounding city has grown and changed the visual and physical context. This results in contemporary needs of the new settlers which constitute a new relationship between building and landscape. The new residence takes the form of a heptagonal figure whose purity is confounded by a series of intersecting diagonal slices though space. Limited by an introverted exterior, living spaces unfold in a moir of shifting perspectival frames from within and throughout the house. The edges of the outdoor blur into the adjoining living spaces. This enables movement and visual relationships to expand and contract that fits well the centrifugal nature of the site and context.

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