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Jun 29, 2015 · Lautner often sketched as he built, his initial freehand plans and sections indicate a clear sense of structure and an overarching personality unique to each project. Also, the ideas for each individual project were closely related to the needs of his client.
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Jul 16, 2024 · Here, technical innovation draws a surface related to the steep topography, opening up to the landscape thanks to a pool that defines a void in front of the living room. The house generally gathers curvilinear walls that envelop the space, creating a continuous exchange between inside and outside.
Apr 29, 2015 · Throughout his career, Lautner harnessed the idea and the vision to create exciting and dramatic structures. Never losing sight of his client’s individualities and utilizing the elite of domestic construction, Lautner designed and built his way into architectural immortality.
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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 ...
Jul 31, 2008 · Lautner set the house into the side of a steep hill along a path that the couple used to hike up into the mountains. He even integrated the path into his composition, threading it through the...
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]
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Mar 16, 2015 · Though this particular truss-column system never caught on in a big way, it definitely foreshadows his later successes, where he was able to minimize the structural footprint to such a degree that he could put spectacular houses on steep, previously unbuildable lots.
