Hillcrest

Beverly Hills, California

2016

Miguel Ángel Aragonés carried out this project in collaboration with his son Rafael. They started in 2013 with a 1960s wood and imitation-stone house located on North Hillcrest Road in the exclusive Trousdale Estates area. They found that many interior walls "interrupted the views and the sequence of spaces." By removing many of these walls, the team sought to create a fluid movement between the interior and exterior gardens in the front and back of the house. The main materials used are wood, stucco, drywall, Corian, and glass. The 4,520-square-foot (420-square-meter) house has four bedrooms, with as many bathrooms. It now has an open floor plan with a private shower garden in the master suite, a media room, and

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A benchmark of luxury residential architecture in Beverly Hills: Hillcrest by Rafael Aragonés Caballero & Miguel Angel Aragonés. A study in minimalist geometry and urban privacy. Photography by Joe Fletcher.

Plano arquitectónico de un edificio residencial con áreas internas y un jardín con árboles en el exterior. Architecural Design: Rafael Aragonés Caballero, Miguel Angel Aragones.

Dibujo arquitectónico de una estructura moderna, con árboles en el centro y un paisaje en el fondo. Architecural Design: Rafael Aragonés, Miguel Angel Aragones.

Interiores de una casa moderna con vista a una piscina y jardín, puertas corredizas de vidrio, muebles blancos y suelo de madera. Architecural Design: Rafael Aragonés Caballero, Miguel Angel Aragones. Photo: Joe Fletcher

Dibujo técnico que muestra una vista frontal y en perspectiva de una estructura arquitectónica moderna, con líneas limpias y formas rectas. Architecural Design: Rafael Aragonés Caballero, Miguel Angel Aragones. Photo: Joe Fletcher

Masterwork of monolithic volumes and spatial sequence at Hillcrest. Designed by Rafael Aragonés Caballero & Miguel Angel Aragonés, exploring the limits of contemporary architecture. Photography by Joe Fletcher.

a central kidney-shaped pool. As is the preference of Miguel Ángel Aragonés, the white house makes use of intensely colored and variable night lighting. At the rear of the property was a steep slope that appeared to be cut off from the residence, and another goal of the design was to reintegrate this area into the new flow of the house with a stepped plan. "It's almost a new house, but we recovered the structure, opening everything to the backyard and trying to connect it with the land," says Aragonés. The local press reported that the newly restored house was purchased by the actor Orlando Bloom in 2017.