Located in a neighborhood characterized by traditional bungalow style single-family residences, Orange Grove is a new landmark for the City of West Hollywood. The building is sensitively designed and compatible with the neighborhood, but differs in material palette and scale from its neighbors. Referencing architectural conventions of modernism rather than the pitched roof forms of traditional domesticity, the project presents a characteristic that is consistent with the eclectic and often unconventional demographic of West Hollywood. Distinct from neighboring structures, the building creates a strong relationship to the street by virtue of its large amount of highly usable balcony area in the front façade. While there are dramatic and larger scale elements that define the building, it is also broken down into comprehensible human scale parts, and is itself broken down into two different buildings. Orange Grove displays a similar kind of iconoclasm as the Schindler House, an icon of California modernism, located a short distance away. Like the Schindler House, the conventional architectural elements of windows and porches become part of an abstract sculptural ensemble. At the Schindler House, windows are found in the gaps between structural concrete wall panels. At Orange Grove, windows are inserted in gaps between different sections of the building. The design of Orange Grove is generated by a subtle balance of tensions. Building volumes and the placement of windows, doors and balconies are not static but rather constitute an active three-dimensional composition in motion. Each piece of the building is a strong and clearly defined shape, such as the corrugated metal surround that encloses the second story balcony in the east and north facades. Another example of this clear delineation is the use of two square profile balcony surrounds in the front façade that set up a dialogue between them—one is small, the other large, one is open at the front, the other is veiled with stainless steel slats. At the same time each balcony is balanced and related to other elements in the building, the smaller one to the driveway gate below and the other to the roll-up door and first floor balcony. Each building element is intended to read as an abstract form in itself—such as a window becoming a slit or windows becoming a framed box, while also becoming part of a larger whole. Although this building may not mirror the status quo it answers to the desires of consumers in a burgeoning niche market who want large, simple interior volumes of space, and a paradigm based on space, light and industrial materials of the loft rather than the bungalow.

シアトルにあるお手頃価格の小さなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (コンクリート繊維板サイディング、緑の外壁) の写真

Rear view of home
サンフランシスコにあるお手頃価格の小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (漆喰サイディング、緑の外壁) の写真

Foto: Michael Nast
ベルリンにあるお手頃価格の小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな陸屋根 (緑の外壁) の写真

View of the master suite and screened porch addition. Photo: Brian Mihealsick
オースティンにあるお手頃価格の小さなモダンスタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (メタルサイディング、緑の外壁) の写真

ドレスデンにあるお手頃価格の小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (オレンジの外壁、下見板張り) の写真

New single storey rear addition with full basement tied off the rear of the existing home and attached to the neighbouring semi-detached residence.
トロントにあるお手頃価格の小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (コンクリート繊維板サイディング、緑の外壁、混合材屋根) の写真

シアトルにあるお手頃価格の小さなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (コンクリート繊維板サイディング、緑の外壁) の写真

A contemporary extension to a small heritage listed corner home in Elwood formerly owned by Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor back in the day.
メルボルンにあるお手頃価格の小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (漆喰サイディング、緑の外壁) の写真

他の地域にあるお手頃価格の小さなモダンスタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (メタルサイディング、緑の外壁、アパート・マンション、混合材屋根) の写真

Projet en phase finition
ナンシーにあるお手頃価格の小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (混合材サイディング、緑の外壁、デュープレックス) の写真

ドレスデンにあるお手頃価格の小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (オレンジの外壁、下見板張り) の写真

Photography by John Gibbons This project is designed as a family retreat for a client that has been visiting the southern Colorado area for decades. The cabin consists of two bedrooms and two bathrooms – with guest quarters accessed from exterior deck. Project by Studio H:T principal in charge Brad Tomecek (now with Tomecek Studio Architecture). The project is assembled with the structural and weather tight use of shipping containers. The cabin uses one 40’ container and six 20′ containers. The ends will be structurally reinforced and enclosed with additional site built walls and custom fitted high-performance glazing assemblies.

Photography by John Gibbons This project is designed as a family retreat for a client that has been visiting the southern Colorado area for decades. The cabin consists of two bedrooms and two bathrooms – with guest quarters accessed from exterior deck. Project by Studio H:T principal in charge Brad Tomecek (now with Tomecek Studio Architecture). The project is assembled with the structural and weather tight use of shipping containers. The cabin uses one 40’ container and six 20′ containers. The ends will be structurally reinforced and enclosed with additional site built walls and custom fitted high-performance glazing assemblies.

シアトルにあるお手頃価格の小さなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (コンクリート繊維板サイディング、緑の外壁) の写真

シアトルにあるお手頃価格の小さなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (コンクリート繊維板サイディング、緑の外壁) の写真

Foto: Michael Nast
ベルリンにあるお手頃価格の小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな陸屋根 (緑の外壁) の写真

Foto: Michael Nast
ベルリンにあるお手頃価格の小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな陸屋根 (緑の外壁) の写真

Foto: Michael Nast
ベルリンにあるお手頃価格の小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな陸屋根 (緑の外壁) の写真