The Peg Yorkin House

别墅

作者：51xws

位置：美国 加利福尼亚
分类：别墅建筑
内容：实景照片
图片：19张

This house evolved in response to the tensions of its site, on the edge of a city that sees itself as the edge of the continent. Along the eastern border of the site, the Pacific Coast Highway carries streams of commuters and leisure traffic with their attendant noise, speed, and auto-induced adrenaline. The Santa Monica Mountains end abruptly east of the PCH. They provide the threat of seasonal fires, a cacophony of new houses since the fire of 1993, and the fragile allure of the indigenous landscape. The western edge of the site is the sandy beach of the Pacific with stunning and infinitely transforming panoramas. Tightly fit between these two intense habitats is the Yorkin house, designed to provide refuge for three generations of a family sustained by creative work and social activism.
Matrix of Family Life The house serves as a social and familial retreat for the owner, her two adult children and their families, all of whom were intimately involved in the design process. It was critical for the house to accommodate one person or many with equal comfort, and to support a full spectrum of activities from formal to informal, throughout all seasons. This dense program led to an urban courtyard house typology, a matrix of spaces overlaid with a system of sliding glass and interior
panels to provide varying degrees of community and privacy and a range of openness to the environment.
Outside/Inside
The house mediates between dissonant realms, and unfolds as a series of layers that allows for decompression from the intense car culture outside. Entry is through a courtyard of native beach grasses and over a wooden boardwalk. Once inside, the layers progress from more internally focused family areas to open, light-filled social spaces that communicate through sliding glass walls to an exterior courtyard, terrace, and beach beyond. Stairs weave vertically through this layering to bring color, light, and openness from above. The roof is developed and expressed as a collection of light scoops and terraces which culminate the vertical spatial movement.
The house expresses the dualities of its site. It is solid and urban on the highway, transparent and transformable toward the water, and permeable and vertically connected to the light and sky.