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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...
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.
Apr 29, 2015 · John Lautner, the highly influential architect behind such Mid-century greats as the Malin Residence, the Chemosphere and the Elrod Residence, described his design process as “a total involvement.”
Jul 15, 2022 · The same year he designed his house on Micheltorena, he oversaw construction of Wright’s Sturges House, built on a steep hillside in Brentwood. The original contractor for both the Sturges and the Micheltorena homes was Paul Speer, who would build many of Lautner’s designs over the years.
Jul 31, 2008 · The show picks up steam with a design for the 1948 Sheats Apartments, Lautner’s first built foray into what would become an obsession with circular structures. A tentative early sketch shows...
Lautner designed a system of filters for air intake coming through the bottom of the platform and once walked the perimeter is expelled through an outlet located at the top of the cover by a dome that could open and close. The house has a security channel for washing outside the large windows.
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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]
