RO54

• Prize
  Winner in House Interior Design
• Company/Firm
  Arshia Architects
• Designer
  Arshia Mahmoodi
• Lead Designer(Other)
  Xinlei Li / Yuheng Huang / Fang Cui / Ruby Wu / Zhishan Liu
• Other Credit
  General Contractor: Domaen Build Inc
• Photo Credit
  Paul Vu / Renee Parkhurst / Yuheng Huang
• Location
  1254 Roberto Ln, Bel Air, CA 90077
• Project Date
  06/13/22
• Client
  Mike Parsee
• Project Link
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• Web URL
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Perched on a hilltop in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Los Angeles basin, the project gently lands a dynamic building on top of a buried podium that replicates the natural topography that was once there before the area was subdivided for development.
The design utilizes a split-level configuration that follows the topographic context of the site, where half-story floor plates fluidly connect all the functions of the house in vehement transparency. New adjacencies both visual and functional are formed, by means of oblique circulation over a central void allowing twice the utility of a traditionally dissected assemblage.
The design vocabulary was informed by streamline automotive aesthetics, proposing every technology in the house to have exponent performance discreetly, allowing the architectural space to deliver a sensory performance.