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Like a horizontal rustic-style castle it is nestling up against a steep hill. We walk up the curvy path to the entrance, a path paved with broken slates and flanked by a light-gray wall and by Saguara and Golden Ball cactuses. Far behind, impressive trees are towering above the scenery. The spiral two-
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This home, built in 1960 may be the solution to a construction in steep terrain, slope of 45 degrees, hardly accessible, leaving almost intact the surrounding landscape and environmental impact. At least it’s a work that invites reflection and avoids conventional excavation of the mountain, the retaining walls and the increased cost of the project
Built on a steep hillside in Hollywood, California, one side overlooking the San Fernando Valley, other mountain, detail highlighting its new owners, the family Taschen…. the magnificent location of the house, located between the countryside and the city. What can have very different feelings from both sides of it. From the side facing the San Fern...
As in many of his works John Lautner geometry used in this project, becoming an example of the architecture of the time in the Los Angeles, where a house had no reason to pretend to be. Although Lautner for his designs had little to do with this trend, always tried to integrate the buildings with the environment, creating an organic flow between th...
Raised up on a single central pillar reminds her figure some water tanks, watchtowers or any communication tower. When Lautner saw the sun, drew a straight vertical, one horizontal on top and a curve on it. “Draw it up here,” said his assistant. A house of 205 square meters, of octagonal shape and whose rooms are distributed on the same floor, acce...
The appearance of “flying saucer”, as has also been called to the house, is given by its structure, in this case is the structure that determines the form. The upper structure is constructed with laminated beams subjected to a compression ring in the central steel upper platform deck and all eight arms rests on steel on a single supporting concrete...
For the pillar concrete base is used, the holding arms are steel platform, like the compression ring which is joined laminated wooden beams making up the rest of the structure. The roof deck joints were sealed with epoxy to prevent leaks and get isolation. The large crystals were also sealed with fixed chemical, below ground and applied a layer of ...
- Hollywood, California, United States
Jan 20, 2019 · Initially, the site had been deemed “unbuildable” by several architects and contractors due to the steep 45-degree downhill slope. Lautner’s solution to the house was to embed a 5-foot-thick, 27-foot high reinforced concrete post into the hill to support a floating octagonal pod.
Jun 16, 2010 · Built for the client Malin Lautner, a young aircraft engineer, the design of the residence was in fact an engineering challenge due to its location on a forty-five degree slope in an...
John Lautner's building timeline. The Elrod house in Palm Springs also is among Lautner’s most famed commissions, partly because of its appearance in the James Bond film “Diamonds Are Forever.”.
Lautner’s vision did not equate shel-ter with complete enclosure. The most famous of his Southern California homes is Chemosphere. It resembles a flying saucer docked on a concrete column with steel spokes radiating support. It is perched above a steep, Los Angeles hillside and is only accessi-ble via cable car. With his trademark
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Mar 18, 2017 · On a steep slope Lautner built a house supported by a single pole without disturbing the natural surrounding. [1] The client of that project was Leonard Malin an engineer from the flight industry, who for 30,000$ wanted a one-family house on the steep slope above Mulholland Drive and contracted Lautner for that project. [2]
