PROJECT INFO

Scope: New Single-Family Residence

Location: Los Angeles

Size: 6,200 sf

Status: Under Construction

PROJECT description: 

The GI31 project was inherited by us as a previously built skeleton, that served as the mainframe of our expedition in time and space. We were immediately drawn to the science and techniques of forensic anthropology, specifically the work of Kennis & Kennis on how to speculate “muscle” tissue from osteology. From this investigation, we allowed the form to grow upon the existing framework that was handed down to us as a base palette. Working within the parameters of the allowable zoned envelope, we extended the building’s surficial mass in a choreographed procedure to trace movements in space. A trace is always associated with a physical marking and also a temporal one. Therefore, a trace is always peripatetic and associated with not only space, but also time as shown in the physical first equation of motion (a = ∆v/∆t). This tracing technique provides a perpetual moving force without the need of energetic inoculation as the building survives through ages. Therefore, we can consider this type of movement to be virtually negentropic with zero energetic depletion.

The interiors were designed with a tabula rasa posture and adhering to minimizing visual noise and materiality. Although the building’s programmatic features were already set in stone, we deliberated in maximizing their potential and their emotional capacity with the least amount of material accumulation.
The building is structured on four stacked floors, each offering a series of uses and amenities that provide a type of discovery as one moves through its plates. This discovery is extended when framed views of the expansive mountainscape and the city delta below are encountered in each space. A rooftop deck, that serves as the building’s fifth façade, tops the experience with unobstructed views of the city below.

GI31