Organic and Plush!

Arshia Architects is reigning in awards for gently landing a dynamic building on top of a buried podium, proposing an alternative model within the confines of stringent regulations… Replicating the natural topography, this home perches atop a hill in the Bel Air neighbourhood of Los Angeles, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Los Angeles basin. This hollow post-war neighbourhood has been transforming gradually, overtaken by recent developments that rely on size, rather than spatial quality. The concept here sets out to reduce the massing of a rather large project for it to lodge within the neighbourhood proportionally. As an exercise […]