Home Tour: Westside Single Family Homes
Saturday 7 June, 2008

Sorry this tour is now sold out. No tickets will be sold onsite.

Notice to ticket holders:
Check-in and map pick-up for the Westside Tour
9:30am – 11:30am Saturday, June 7
John Muir Elementary School
2526 Sixth Street (6th Street and Ocean Park)
Santa Monica, CA 90405
http://www.muir.smmusd.org/location.html

To pick-up your map, enter the elementary school parking lot from 6th Street. If you would like to carpool and leave a car in the school parking lot please enter the school parking lot from 5th Street. You may also find parking availability on the surrounding streets for those wishing to leave a vehicle behind. No tickets will be sold onsite.

 

The Los Angeles Westside is where you can find some of LA’s most influential experiments in 20th century residential architecture, dating back to Irving Gill and including personal homes by Charles and Ray Eames, Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne and Ray Kappe. Even though land is more expensive and building codes more restrictive, the Westside is still fertile soil for inventive Modern home design. This self-drive tour around the streets of Venice, Mar Vista, Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica will reveal experiments in light, form and inside-outside living.

Kappe Residence by Ray Kappe, Kappe Architects/Planners

Ray Kappe's 1967 house remains a landmark of nature-friendly modernism.
— Brad Dunning, New York Times

Ray's own home may be the greatest house in all of Southern California.
— Stephen Kanner FAIA, President, A + D (Architecture + Design) Museum, Los Angeles

 

Mar Vista House by Tighe Architecture

The residence is made up of a series of buildings configured on a large lot, creating a protected exterior courtyard. Folded planes define the roof and walls of the two story main house. Strategically placed windows frame views and perforate the building in a seemingly haphazard way. The pool house and guest wing offer a restrained counterpoint whereby the pair of modernist boxes anchor either end of the expansive outdoor garden.  Tighe Architecture

4 two house by DU Architects

Photo: Eric Staudenmaier

The 4 two house is a 2,500 square foot, three story single family home located on a small, 2,580 square foot, lot in the heart of Venice, California. The house has four bedrooms, two and a half baths, a second floor family room, and roof decks. The area is known for it's artistic and diverse lifestyles.

The 4 two house is designed in what we call the regional modern style, using locally available materials and resources to create an organic modern space. Wood and simple, industrial materials were used to warm and humanize the architecture and keep costs down. Features include floor to ceiling glass, exposed structural steel, and redwood ceilings. The major design challenge was to fit the residence on such a tight site and still maintain some outdoor space, which is critical for southern California indoor/outdoor living. DU Architects

King Residence by John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects

This 4,300 sf residence, located on a corner, wedge-shaped lot in Santa Monica , is sited to maximize its relationship with the outlying neighborhood as well as a fluid connection between interior and exterior.  Within a dominant two-story block placed at the top of a gentle rise, the house’s upstairs bedrooms have an unobstructed view of the surrounding city.  Downstairs, the public areas and a home office suite open onto an alternately softscaped and hardscaped garden that wraps around all four sides of the house.  The structure’s openness, and the placement of a large outdoor terrace on the second floor that stretches deep into the second floor mass, bring abundant natural light and ventilation into all areas.  Passive and active green strategies are also employed throughout, including the incorporation of recycled or sustainably-harvested materials; a rooftop photovoltaic system; an efficient in-floor radiant heating system; and drought-resistant planting.
John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects

Nuss/Mashaal Residence by W3 Architects

The placement of the Nuss-Mashall Residence on the site responds to our goal of creating a passive solar residence and a desire to respect the scale of its quiet neighborhood. The solar orientation is optimized through the formation of a long, thin volume that exposes a maximum wall area to the South. By setting back the two story volume an extra 20' from the required 16'-6" front yard setback, and the one story volume and extra 10', the 4,000 sq. ft. building mass is significantly softened to the street.

The long South façade allows for winter solar heat gain while the Upper Level volume cantilevers to provide the Main Level, moveable glazing walls shading from the unwanted summer sun. The Upper Level bedrooms use thin overhangs for shading and operable windows and skylights for individual passive ventilation. The roof garden helps to insulate the Main Level study, provides a garden off the master bedroom deck, and separates this private space from the street. The North wall provides strategically placed openings used for diffuse light, and as a source of cool air, while the expanse of unmitigated mass wall acts as the anchor of the passive solar strategy. W3 Architects

Venice Walk Street Residence by Eddington Design.

805 Marco Place is situated on one of the charming Venice Walk Streets, 3 blocks from Abbot Kinney. Built on 2 stories, a large open-plan ground floor, a dramatic steel stairway leads to 4 bedrooms, total sq footage 2915. It is with sustainability in mind that we are working with the US Green Building Council, 'Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, LEED for Homes program'. Within the pilot program we are aiming for 'Platinum Certification'. If achieved, it will be only the second LEED Platinum, conventionally constructed house in Southern California.

Properties and schedule are subject to change without notice.

 

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