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FRATZI HOUSE
8413
GRAND VIEW DR.
LOS ANGELES
CA 90046
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Sunset Strip The Strip is probably the best known portion of Sunset, embracing a premier collection of boutiques, restaurants, rock clubs, and nightclubs that are on the cutting edge of the entertainment industry
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8413 Grand View Drive
Sunset Tower Apts.
Chateau Marmont “I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.” - Billy Wilder
Laurel Canyon Boulevard
FRATZI HOUSE . 8413 Grand View Drive . Los Angeles . CA 90046
view from driveway
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I was living that year in a house on Yucca Avenue in the Laurel Canyon district. It was a small hillside house on a dead end street with a long flight of redwood steps to the front door and a grove of eucalyptus trees across the way.
Each and every morning When the sun is high I hunt around the Canyon Till I find a place to lie Oh, oh, it’s so beautiful to be alone Got the sun and trees and silence I’m in my Laurel Canyon home
Philip Marlow
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
Looking back a century I look at where I stand It must have looked the same as when Apaches roamed the land Now the sun is sinking It’s time to reminisce Here’s a way of living That I will sorely miss John Mayall, Laurel Canyon Home Blues From Laurel Canyon, Deram, 1969
8413 GRAND VIEW DRIVE
CONTEMPORARY CANYON LIVING
FRATZI HOUSE . 8413 Grand View Drive . Los Angeles . CA 90046
A green house for the arts. PAT. launch its new project PAT. is going to marry its greatest passions in a new ambitious project hitting the ground in the legendary Laurel Canyon neighbour on Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills. A steep slice of rock on the top of Grandview drive, tucked in the middle between the spots where novelist Raymond Chandler and British bluesman John Mayall used to live, will be the unlikely fertile ground for a green home of the new generation. PAT., whose love for hardboiled literature and blues music is matched only by the passion for light and airy sustainable buildings, is designing a new uncompromising house for the hillside site, who sits on top of the hill which faces West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip. Flanked by local engineer Dimitri Vergun, who was responsible for the audacious structures of many celebrated LA homes from the likes of Pierre Koenig, Coop Himmelblau and Ed Niles, PAT. will cantilever from the rock a steel framed box. Floating above the canyon as a dirigible, the house will offer an immersion in the natural elements just a few minutes away from the excitement of the Sunset Strip. Capitalizing on PAT.’s trademark no-nonsense, modular, integrated approach to building design, the house will target LEED gold certification. The energy strategy will exploit the warm California sun and the site-specific Canyon breeze to efficiently control the home microclimate. A selective building envelope will optimize solar gain according to the different hours and season of the years. The silvery skin will change as a chameleon to adapt to the varying conditions, providing comfort and the exhilarating experience of ever changing light and balmy air. Expected to be completed in the spring of 2015, the house will welcome visitors in the classic Case Study fashion: fully furnished. Instead of featuring the canonical mid century modern pieces, PAT. will pay homage to its own country showcasing the best in modern and contemporary Italian furniture design. Upon completion, the home will open the doors to a summer of artists in residence. A tribute to Laurel Canyon lineage in the development of the arts, the house will host a series of time and site specific events and exhibitions.
Architects Luca Rocca I Jacopo Testa I Francesca ThiĂŠbat I Andrea Veglia I Benedetta Veglia
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view from the project site
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garage level plan
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recreational room level plan
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living room level plan
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bedroom level plan
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view from north-east
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section BB . east elevation
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section FF . west elevation
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view from north-west
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view from the roof deck
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section AA
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view from the roof deck
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section LL
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views from the living room entrance
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view from the living room terrace
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section II
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view from the east side
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8413 GW: an house with a lineage It may not be a case that the site at 8413 Grand View Drive sits on an ideal line joining Case Study House #21 and #22 by Pierre Koenig. The legendary Californian architect has been an enduring reference for PAT. since the early works of the firm. Back in 2001, working at the design of the Omes Factory, Andrea Veglia and Jacopo Testa turned at his matter of fact, no nonsense use of commercial steel sections in order to produce an economical yet refined building that eventually went on to win a string of awards. It was Koenig’s lesson again in the back of their minds when they entered the UIA Competition in 2008, whose aim was to select an economical, demountable, recyclable design to build a freestanding Infopoint Pavilion for the International Congress of the International Union of Architects. PAT. was awarded 3rd prize among almost 500 entries from all over the world. Although obviously fascinated by the sleek skin and bone aesthetic it produced, it is the logical, almost scientific, approach that lies behind Koenig’s work that moved PAT toward the Californian. And it is the approach, not merely the aesthetic that PAT. embraced and pushed forward. As Esther Mc Coy put it, Architecture is an evolutionary art, where one generation sits on the shoulders of the previous one. Today’s knowledge of materials, energy conservations and building dynamics can produce high performance buildings that greatly improves on yesterday’s standard. And as PAT. strives in his quest toward a sustainable architecture based on the effective use of materials and energy resources, the challenge posed by the Grand View site makes the task arduous as ever. The lot is steep and narrow, sloping South to North on the top of an hill in the Laurel Canyon area. The themes developed in CSH #21 and #22 overlap in Grand View: as for #21 the site shape calls for a building orientated on the North/South axis, and the challenge of building on a slope, dramatized in #22, is here even more demanding. Yet, the steep slope and the height limit regulation implies that a single story pavilion as the CSH is out of question, thus linking GW to another precedent in the off the shelf prefabricated steel framed houses lineage: Helmut Schulitz own house in nerby Beverly Hills. Add this that the lot is in a fire hazard area, the connection to the access road is a mere 25 feet, and the restriction posed by the Hillside Regulation of the Building code and what you have is a little project of amazing complexity.
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Design Team Architecture PAT. (Torino, Italy)
Andrea Veglia (partner in charge), Francesca ThiÊbat, Benedetta Veglia, Jacopo Testa, Luca Rocca, Nicolò Radicioni, Alice Ferro
Structural engineering Dimitry K. Vergun (Culver City, CA) Dimitry Vergun (principal), Michael Landa
Mechanical engineering Fruchtman and Associates (Los Angeles, CA) David Fruchtman
Civil engineering Ashirt Engineering (Arroyo Grande, CA) Trisha Coffey
Geologist Southwest Geotechnical (Santa Clarita, CA) Conrad Carrle
Topographic Survey Land & Air Surveying (Malibu, CA) Mark Sandstrom (principal), Kate Bjork
Energy & environment consultant Luca Raimondo (Torino, Italy)
FRATZI HOUSE . 8413 Grand View Drive . Los Angeles . CA 90046