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Transformer House
Winter 2022
Instructor: Ben Freyinger
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Location: Westwood, Los Angeles
Size: 7,000 Sq Ft
This project reimagines Rudolph Schindler’s Tischler house as a coliving space for Los Angeles artists.
The studio began with an exploration of the Tischler house as a simple machine, and in this case, a space-making one. The Schindler’s themselves viewed their own home on Kings Road as a backdrop for arts, able to transform to accomodate the needs of itinerant occupants. With this in mind, I expanded the footprint of the Tischler home to its site extents, and created an unfolding top mass to serve as living, shared, and performance space for the resident artists.
Massing logic. Top level unfolds into a performance space
The flexible arrangement of the top floor accommodates varying programmatic needs
The gabled wall and roof fold down to create a theater space
