Situated on the tidal flats of Centennial Beach, the Boundary Bay Residence was originally conceived and realized by locally renowned Architect Daniel Evan White in 1990. A master of balance and the interplay between shape and form
This 7,000 sf house is nestled on a heavily wooded hilltop site in Ross, CA with breathtaking views of Mt. Tam and the San Francisco Bay over native California Oaks in one direction and the town of Ross through majestic old-growth redwoods in the other.
Thrilled with the beach town location of their summer house in the Los Angeles area, but not with its loud ’90s-era architecture, a family of four approached Blue Truck Studio with a directive — tone it down. What they had: a Manhattan Beach house with wild geometry, such as octagon-shaped rooms and triangular spaces.
Komorebi House is a single-family dwelling designed for rent, a typology that has become common in the area and that carries the challenge to design for an anonymous but identifiable user, mostly young families moving from central to southern Chile.
Is it possible to design a house with bioclimatic concepts and based on the basic principles of passive houses, but with an innovative design character and with a fluid relationship between the exterior and the plot?
One of the primary goals of this 4100 sf front-to-back Glendale duplex was to create a form that graphically allows the occupants to feel a sense of individual ownership within a shared building, while embracing the idea of density in a rapidly expanding city on a narrow 50’ wide sloped lot.
We came in contact with the DH House through a very close client, who wanted to build a special affordable budget retirement home for him and his wife. With this as the starting point, the project takes a simple form with many low tech design strategies to reach its current state.
Montalba Architects received seven awards in 2019 for the design of the newly completed 4,200 square-foot Pasadena residential property. A “matchbox” concept is the driving force behind the design of this residence in Pasadena.
