Hillcrest
Beverly Hills, California
2016
In collaboration with my son Rafael. We started in 2013 with a 1960s wood and imitation-stone house located on North Hillcrest Road in the exclusive Trousdale Estates area. We found that many interior walls interrupted the views and the sequence of spaces. By removing many of these walls, we 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.
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It now has an open floor plan with a private shower garden in the master suite, a media room, and a central kidney-shaped pool. 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.
