Modern residential house with wooden and concrete exterior, surrounded by desert plants, illuminated at sunset.

HOUSE 031

LOS ANGELES, CA

2019

Set into the hillside above Los Feliz, this house is conceived as a sequence of sheltered rooms, terraces, and planted thresholds held beneath a deep timber roof. Heavy stone walls establish a quiet permanence, while large sliding openings dissolve the boundary between interior and landscape. The project works with the climate rather than against it: shade, mass, cross-ventilation, and filtered light shape the daily experience of the house. Warm timber ceilings, vertical screens, limestone surfaces, and native planting create a tactile architecture that feels both grounded and open. The house is less an object on the site than a frame for living with the slope, the garden, and the long view beyond.