STEEL HOUSE

Single Family Residence

UCLA Design Studio

Instructor: Barton Myers

This single family home is designed to fit seamlessly into a predominantly singly story, residential community in West Los Angeles. The design appropriates the traditional Mid-Century Modern courtyard houses that are ubiquitous in Southern California, but pushes this typology to its limit. Instead of addressing the house as a single unit, each room is built to stand alone on a 4’x4’ grid. Rooms are situated in proximity to other rooms with related program so that the resulting interstitial spaces serve as shared courtyards and exterior corridors. Each courtyard takes on a distinct character that reflects the program of the adjacent rooms. This strategy creates intimate and often surprising outdoor pocket yards nestled between light and breezy interior spaces. The system is incredibly flexible. The house can be a assembled in any number of configurations and lends itself to prefab construction where standard components can be built off site.

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