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Mandeville Canyon Residence / Griffin Enright Architects

Javier Gaete — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 01:00:00 +0000

This project is sited on a cul-de-sac that creates a tapered lot, with a small front yard that contrasts with an expansive rear yard that opens to the canyon and city views. The house becomes an overscaled porch with a discrete entrance and deliberate entry sequence that reveals the views. From the rear yard, the house is seen as horizontal layers that seem to emerge from the landscape, while the presence at the entrance of the house is distinctly more urban and vertical.

Point Dume Residence / Griffin Enright Architects

Javier Gaete — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This house takes the typical paths of domestic movement and manipulates them to weave the exterior landscape and site into the house while enhancing natural airflows and views. An interest in the continuity of landscape, circulation, and the sequential movement through space has lead to an exploration of continuous spatial relationships in this residence. Smooth, sinuous surfaces delineate zones of space while maximizing the site’s topography, views, and circulation. Volumes are differentiated through a slicing of surfaces and materials, emphasizing the horizontal while allowing a multiplicity of spatial conditions to develop through the interaction of these forms, surfaces and volumes. These spatial intersections accumulate the more static elements of the house, while breaking down edges between inside and outside, allowing a more engaging relationship between the land and internal logics of the house.

St. Thomas the Apostle School / Griffin Enright Architects

Javier Gaete — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This K-8 Catholic school in a densely populated part of the city sits on an extremely small site. The project is designed to achieve the maximum effect with limited resources, working with an economy of means to turn every constraint into an architectural opportunity.