Peter Tolkin + Sarah Lorenzen Architecture Residential Projects

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1 Peter Tolkin + Sarah Lorenzen Architecture Residential Projects Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com

2 Contents Woodrow Wilson Connector Los Angeles, California Parker Studio Pasadena, California Mt. Washington Remodel Los Angeles, California Vielmetter Residence Altadena, California Holly Vista Remodel Pasadena, California Park Drive Residence Los Angeles, California Shasta Residence Mount Shasta, California Branch House Montecito, California Sherman Residence Encino, California Sunglass House Malibu, California 4 Lower Camden Dublin, Ireland M Lofts Merced, California Marmion Court Los Angeles, California Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 2

3 Woodrow Wilson Connector Hollywood, California A movie director living in a house in the Hollywood Hills asked us to find a way to connect the main house, where he lived, to the guest house, which was occupied by his teenage children. The caveat was that this connector needed to be able to be severed once his children were older or if he decided to sell the house. Conceptually the connector functioned as an umbilical cord between houses. To make sure that the project was collapsible, lightweight, and adaptable to the topography we designed the projects as a kit of parts made up of leveling supports, a lightweight frame, and semi-transparent fabric skin Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com

4 Parker Studio Pasadena, California This small building used as an art studio for a photographer is sited in the backyard of a 920s Craftsman bungalow. We addressed the building s Arts & Crafts context through our material choices and expressive construction details. The design is based on a layered wall system, perhaps analogous to a shipping crate, that is ornamented with screws in a code prescribed nailing pattern. There design also clearly distinguishes the vertical structural system of the redwood posts, the lateral structural system of the plywood shear panels, and the interior walls used to display art Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 4

5 Mt. Washington Remodel Los Angeles, California A well known contemporary Los Angeles artist asked us to undertake a small addition and face-lift of his home in Mount Washington. His primary motivation was enlarging the living space to accommodate his piano. We took this opportunity to also rework the entry sequence and to completely redesign the front of the house. For the front elevation we developed a grid of perforated metal screens at various scales that loosely reference the grids that the artist employs in his own work. These screens diffuse the shape of the original house and at the same time create a register for the life going on inside Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 5

6 Vielmetter Residence Altadena, California A contemporary art gallerist and her scientist husband asked us to renovate their house in Altadena. The existing house, which had been built in several phases, was highly fragmented and closed off from the garden. Our task was to open up the house, rearrange the circulation, bring in more natural light, and create wall space for their art collection. We reduced the multiple spaces of the house into two main volumes, opened up the house to a new deck and pool, lifted the ceilings to take advantage of the space of the gables, added multiple skylights, and made the kitchen the home s social center Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 6

7 Holly Vista Remodel Pasadena, California The owners of this mid-century post-and-beam Pasadena house overlooking the Arroyo Seco asked us to add onto and adapt the house to meet their current needs. The renovation infused the home with a contemporary aesthetic while retaining the home s original character (reminiscent of Cliff May s Ranch-style houses). The project includes an extension to the master bedroom, a new outdoor living room, and updates to the pool, pool house, landscape, and hardscape. We were also asked to design and fabricate custom cabinetry for the home office and an aluminum and glass table for the dining room Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 7

8 Park Drive Residence Los Angeles, California This house, originally designed by an engineer in the 970 s, is being remodelled to accommodate an artist and an architect. The original house is a matter of fact trapezoidal plywood box that follows the hillside grade. In the redesign we retained the existing plywood box, reworked the building s interior configuration to add more light, and added a third story for a master bedroom and bath. The exterior is reclad and then wrapped with a secondary mesh screen to soften the geometry of the trapezoidal volume and to better integrate the building into the landscape. There will also be a new pool and artist studio Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 8

9 Shasta Residence Mount Shasta, California This single-family residence in Northern California is sited on a three-acre parcel at the base of Mount Shasta. The functions of the house are arranged around views of the four major geographical features that surround it: Mount Shasta, Black Butte, Mount Eddy, and The Crags. During the design process these natural features were used as experiential compass points, each having a different degree of pull in determining the spatial organization of the house. The kitchen, located at the center of the house, functions as the common gathering space with views of the entire landscape. CASTLE CRAGS ELEV : 6000 MT. EDDY ELEV : 9026 BLACK BUTTE ELEV : 6825 MT. SHASTA ELEV : Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 9

10 Branch House Montecito, California Arranged in the round, the house was conceived as a cluster of individual room volumes each with a unique orientation to light and view. Working closely with an arborist, we situated the volumes in a grove of existing oak trees, floating the house off the ground by means of concrete piles to avoid injuring the roots of the oak trees. A circulation spine, lined with glass, connects the volumes and serves as a contemporary gallery to display the owner s extensive art collection. A skylight, at each volume, provides additional natural light and a view to the sky Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 0

11 Sherman Residence Encino, California Located on an extraordinary hillside site above the San Fernando Valley, the Sherman Residence was designed to unite indoors and outdoors. The house is made up of as a series of board-formed concrete, wood and glass pavilions connected via intersticial gallery spaces that together define a central courtyard. From each room one can see the rich and varied landscape, which includes indigenous large oaks, sycamores, working plants such as orange and avocado trees, palms and succulents. A singular low-slung wood roof with deep overhangs shades and unifies the overall composition Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com

12 Sunglass House Malibu, California Located above the coast of Malibu, this two-story concrete and glass home is organized into a series of bands that hug the hillside and a central circulation spine. Living spaces are compressed between the retaining walls that hold back the earth and a series of glass facades facing the ocean and Santa Monica Bay. The name of the project stems from the physical and psychological protection provided by wearing reflective sunglasses. On the house the glasses allow for panoramic views of the ocean while also reflecting the landscape back onto the exterior face of the building Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 2

13 4 Lower Camden Dublin, Ireland This mixed-use urban infill project, on a narrow site, consists of five residential units (one per floor), retail and office programs, and a basement opening onto a sunken courtyard. The lot currently sits vacant, the result of a 202 fire that destroyed its threestorey Georgian dwelling. In 902 this was the site of the Irish National Theater Society (a precursor to the Abbey Theatre) and in 909 Countess Markievicz and Bulmer Hobson founded the Irish National Boy Scouts (Na Fianna Eireann) here. Our project pays tribute to this history with a memorial and fits into the context by stepping back the building mass Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com

14 M Lofts Merced, California M Lofts is a mid-block urban infill project consisting of fourteen live-work loft units and seven ground-level retail spaces. The façade design takes its cues from the materials and aesthetic proportions of the adjacent historic building. Tall windows are set deep-into the facade to provide the tenants with street-front balconies and to bring large amounts of daylight into each apartment s double-height loft space. Laser-cut metal ornamental grills, patterned with modern-interpretations of locally made baskets, are used at the storefronts, above the main building entrance, and for balcony railings Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 4

15 Marmion Court Los Angeles, California This transit-oriented, multi-family housing complex on a triangular site adjacent to the Heritage Square Metro Goldline light rail station, responds to increased demand for high-quality affordable housing that is also close to transit. To avoid double-loaded corridors with single-story units pancaked on top of each other we designed the housing into bars of two-story units with a publicly accessible exterior court. This minimized circulation and lifted the bedrooms off of the entry level. The project s metal cladding relates to the industrial character of the area while the building height conforms to the scale of nearby housing Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 5