client: Thomas and Vanessa Jackson
type: residential addition
location: Valley Village, California
size: 1,300 sq ft existing / 600 sq ft addition
status: completed
darin johnstone architects
Tiara II
March 2013
This project is a commission to design a second dwelling for an existing property in Valley Village, California. Though the new zoning laws make the project permissible, several permutations were designed to make it viable. In the end a simple rectangular massing was bent and thickened to accommodate the detached second dwelling setback, the adjacent hillside setback and the solar orientation. The resultant form, curved and canted, is to be clad in a building material first developed to cover skateboard ramps. Made from recycled paper, it is maintenance free and will be the first curved application on a building facade.
