City / South Pasadena, CA Program / 3,709 sq. ft. single family home Completed / 2011
This home is comprised of a series of sculptural white rooms with roofs of varying heights housing living, work and bedroom spaces. Bathrooms, storage and services are accommodated in simple, low, wood-clad fingers that slide back and forth between the white rooms defining a series of outdoor courtyards. The informal open-plan arrangement connecting living and bedroom spaces directly to the outdoor courtyards reflects the family’s desire for the house to feel like a compound of small bungalows where outdoor spaces are an extension of the indoors. The courtyards are the big spaces, and the house the backdrop, designed to be obscured by landscape and offering only glimpses of itself from each courtyard.