Canyon House


Canyon House has two faces: a studio workplace that fronts the street, its roof following the slope of the road and its trio of doors opening onto an entry court, and a family house, on the two floors below the studio, that faces the canyon and the back garden. There are two zones of overlap; a study at the top of the tower at the level of the studio, and a series of rooms under the driveway/entry court.

The live/work house is on a steeply sloped site in Santa Monica Canyon. The sectional organization of the program for the studio house into working, living and sleeping levels is overlaid with a sequence of spaces defined by walls and volumes. Two types of spaces are developed: spaces within the walls of pre?conceived volumes and spaces between walls, those which are resultant both in intention and conception.