NEW HOME


The house is a 1938 typical California bungalow. Each use(bedroom, dining, kitchen, living, sun porch) is self contained separate from the next. A cellular house, each room a use. When the house was built the dining room anchored the nuclear family and dinner was a nightly formal event. Not so today. Our task was to open the house; create a free plan out of this cellular one and allow the morning light to filter through the open rooms and structure the living areas to embrace a future garden. The result is a reorienting of the house from the formal front lawn, which rarely gets much use, to the backyard and the morning light.

Several new configurations for the kitchen that open up the house to the morning sun and backyard garden as well as push more interaction between individual programs.

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A few renders before we go into construction.

Hisako was very excited to get a better idea of what the future backyard garden may look like so she made this sketch.