Arch Tour Fest: Haus Around A Tree | 10AM

Photo Credit: OFFICEUNTITLED

Arch Tour Fest: Haus Around A Tree | 10AM

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Architecture Firm: OFFICEUNTITLED

CES Learning Units: 1 LU

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Designed as a nod to the city’s low-slung bungalows and international style homes, the Moreno is organized around a continuous corridor and central courtyards. Formally, a series of interlocking volumes are clad in different materials between two functional wings. The single family residence is defined by a curated spatial sequence that connects indoor living spaces with discrete outdoor gardens.

The Moreno Residence embraces Southern California’s climate with courtyards on each side of the home and a stripped-down aesthetic, emphasizing materiality and craft.

In the Moreno Residence, the ground floor east wing contains the more private and functional spaces of the home. The west wing houses more open and public spaces, with a continuous corridor bridging the two wings from the entry to the backyard. As the corridor passes through the main kitchen and living areas, it spills out onto an exterior patio, lawn, and pool deck. The two-story building includes five bedrooms and bathrooms, a gym, a kid’s playroom and a home office. The central program is arranged as a series of solid boxes floating above a clear, glazed podium on the ground floor.

The building envelope was designed as a multi-functional exterior skin, serving as roofing, perforated screens, cladding and shading. The home’s exterior finishes include a mix of stucco, vertical western red cedar siding, and custom profiled and corrugated metal panel siding using Japanese metal printing technology. Giving identity to the building volume, the residence includes custom wood trellis structures, perforated metal entrance canopies, a freestanding main stair, and floor-to-ceiling sliding doors that connect the living spaces to the exterior.

The Moreno Residence embodies a modern design approach unique to Los Angeles. Combining a European minimalist aesthetic with a West Coast tradition of outdoor living between rooms and gardens, the design bridges culture, architecture and landscape through the typology of the single family home.

Interior Designer: Courtney Nye Design, Portland
Structural Engineer: Kurt Fischer Structural Engineering
General Contractor: PATH PDX
Landscape Architect: Richard Bartley

Tour Led By:

Christian Robert, AIA – Co-Founder & Principal, OFFICEUNTITLED
Christian Robert is a Co-Founder of OFFICEUNTITLED, and has been pushing the boundaries of Interior Design and Architecture for more than 20 years. With an aesthetic and environmental awareness informed by European roots, his work balances modernism and a playful spirit grounded in West Coast culture. Christian has led a series of diverse international and local Southern California award winning projects, including The Harland condominiums.

OFFICEUNTITLED is a young, energetic architecture and design firm focused on creative solutions across multiple scales and typologies, including commercial, hospitality, residential, and mixed-use. Established in 2013 as R&A Architecture and Design, and rebranded in 2019 as OFFICEUNTITLED, the practice leverages the award-winning design and project leadership of its four principals and a broad portfolio of experience in transformative architecture and interiors projects.

Learning Objectives:
+ Participant will learn how the architect arranged the building around key landscape elements and view corridors in mind.
+ Participants will learn how to the Architect divided the house into different program volumes and materials
+ Participants will learn how to combined passive and active energy saving measures.
+ Participants will learn how the architect designed an enhanced waterproofing system