Arch Tour Fest: Case Study | 12PM

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Arch Tour Fest: Case Study | 12PM

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Architecture Firm: Woods + Dangaran

CES Learning Units: 1 LU

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This design acts as a 21st-century Case Study house, a prototype for exploring the potential for new custom homes within well-established Los Angeles suburbs. The home addresses a complex challenge: providing its residents with access to daylight, capturing prevailing breezes, and creating inviting exterior spaces while maintaining a high-quality interior spatial experience and a comfortable level of privacy—all on a standard-size suburban lot. The home’s living spaces are peaceful, comfortable, and private. Every space in the home has an appropriately-scaled, framed view or access to the outdoors. Defined by the family room and primary suite, a two-story central atrium showcases a 30-year-old Japanese black pine. The breakfast nook opens onto the front yard, planted with a textured mix of ornamental grasses and olive trees. Interior spaces are rigorously scaled and sequenced, resulting in simultaneous experiences of openness and intimacy. Nooks, niches, and small spaces for retreat are carefully carved out of the open floor plan.

Landscape Architect: Chris Sosa
General Contractor: Saint Aigan Builders
Structural Engineer: Labib Funk & Associates
Interior Design: Woods + Dangaran

Tour Led By:

Joseph Dangaran, AIA – Partner, Woods + Dangaran
Joseph Dangaran is one of the founding partners of the Los Angeles based architecture and interior design firm, Woods + Dangaran. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California before working at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Marmol Radziner, where he honed his approach to modern architecture. When starting Woods + Dangaran just over 10 years ago, Joseph and business partner Brett Woods made the commitment to create modern homes through dialogue and exploration while collaborating closely with clients through the design process. “If you’re going to create something physical in this world, it should have intention and craft. Architecture should communicate its construction, its systems, and its soul to the user.”

Learning Objectives:
+ Participants will learn how a home can maximize the use of a typical, suburban lot size incorporating the required setbacks into functional outdoor space and landscaped areas.
+ Participants will learn how a home can be designed without the use of steel structure as only wood framing was used. This was a key concept from the beginning of the design process to streamline the construction timeline and to reduce construction costs.
+ Participants will learn how the massing of a residence can have a positive impact on the neighborhood. By strategically setting back the second level well beyond the front yard setback, the impact of the structure on the streetscape is minimized.
+ Participants will learn how landscape architecture can heavily impact the success of a design. Strategically planted trees are used as both screening elements for privacy as well as living art on display. Consistent hedging creates a backdrop for contained views from within the home. The home is covered in creeping fig, which helps camouflage the home within the landscape and minimizes the scale within the neighborhood.
+ Participants will learn how a simple and consistent interior material palette can support a peaceful interior environment where furniture, art and the home owners belongings become the focus, not the architecture.