A new single-family house, ADU, and carport in Altadena surround an interior courtyard for a couple, their two daughters, their dog, their families and friends, and a bunch of plants.

It’s a lot of program and building volume on one site. No avoiding that. We supersized two of the more obvious domestic elements (the chimney and the pitched roof) and used them as organizing/expressive features. They became “sky boxes” and “canopies”, though we aren’t aggressively pure about them.

To that end, there’s a more fine-grained articulation of the plan playing out beneath the canopies -- we’re thinking about thickness, shape, a modulation of light, and so on. We’re particularly excited about how this is informing the perimeter of the building, with its overhangs, soffits, fin walls, decks, etc. that shape the relationship to the courtyard.

The images shown here capture the design work in progress.

Terrestrial Pursuits Corporation

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