AIA|LA May 6th Home Tour: Palisades to Brentwood!

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AIA|LA Spring Home Tour 2012, PALISADES TOBRENTWOOD, sponsored by Gruen Associates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Nathalia Morales-Evanks,AIA|LA Communications [email protected]

Los Angeles, April 5, 2012 - AIA|LA is thrilled to take you West for round two of the2012 Spring Home Tours Series, PALISADES TO BRENTWOOD on May 6th from 11am - 4 pm, sponsored by Gruen Associates.

With such an array of luxurious and spacious architectural treasures, selecting homes fora tour in neighborhoods like Brentwood and the Palisades is not easy. Yet, every seasonwe go out of our way to bring you amazing homes!

Carlo Caccavale, Associate Director for AIA Los Angeles said that, these homesrepresent the best combination in regards to what Los Angeles design and architecture

has to offer, in terms of scale, position, lifestyle and the glam factor."Glam Factorindeed, these homes are glamorous and opulent! Come see them in person on May 6th!

To get your dash of modern Los Angeles living, join us for PALISADES TOBRENTWOOD, home tour on May 6th from 11 am - 4pm.

Designers featured on PALISADES TO BRENTWOOD include:

Warren W. Wagner, AIA Barbara Callas, AIA Michael Lehrer, FAIA William Hefner, AIA

Ticket information:

Purchase MAY 6 Tour Tickets: http://aialamay6hometour.eventbrite.com/AIA Members: $65 (excluding applicable registration fees)Non Members $75 (excluding applicable registration fees)

The Brentwood to Palisades tour features the following homes.

AIA Los AngelesA Chapter of the American Institute of Architects


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Cor-ten Cottage

(Barbara Callas, AIA - Callas Architects, Inc.)

Streets snake through thePalisades, populated by60s shacks and mansions.10 years ago, architectBarbara Callas bought ashack to get her twintoddlers Westside air andcontinue the experimentthat is her architecture.The key issue in the twostage course of therenovation was thechallenge presented bynarrow property lines,

shallow frontage, and thecode requirements that restricted adding a third story which was the main motivation wasto add a master with a peek of the pacific.

The architects work is guided by a Minimalist Mind and Humanist Hand. The projectbecame continuing research in materiality. The resultant shell is rusting corrugated Cor-Ten steel. It requires no paint and no maintenance. The three levels of the residenceare open each to the garden or the sea and separated from one another. The living level- previously limited in fenestration - is now a wall of transparency facing northern lightthat views a terraced garden of pepper, palm, bamboo and agave. The baths are bothpractical and playful: the girls sports a large rain shower head in a space of pristinesubway tile where the Labradoodle gets her weekly wash. The powder room is

surrounded in sumptuous chocolate bronze tile, its glass enclosed shower is framed floorto ceiling by a slim south facing semi-opaque glass edge where the shadows of palmfronds dance.

Callas and her husband Paul Gurian wanted their 600 square-foot master to be apermanent weekend getaway. His and her womb chairs sit upon a tight lama pilecarpet which hosts the B&B bed, and side tables that face the ubiquitous flat screen.The bath is an oversized wet room with his and her showers. The fixtures areintersected by open walls of glass that illuminate the fabric of the mosaic tile. Light, thesignature of modern design, here as in other geometries of the home heightens theparadox of being open to the world while tucked away in the primal privacy of this cor-ten

cottage.

Palleschi-Hart Residence

(Warren W. Wagner, AIA - W3 Architects)

Pacific Palisades, CA

Project Team:Architect: W3 Architects, Warren Wagner AIA - Principal, Deva Berg - Project ManagerGeneral Contractor: Joseph Kaplan Construction


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Structural Engineer: Leo Parker, Parker Resnick Structural Engineers

The Palleschi-HartResidence is a 5,600square foot sustainablydesigned, passive solarhome located in PacificPalisades, California. Theresidence has a pavilionlike family wing with a2,500 square foot greenroof above and an openentertaining wing housinga library, living room, anddining area. A solar loggiashelters these main

furnished spaces fromdirect South light while optimizing direct solar gain.

The residence features reclaimed oak floors and ceilings, natural stonewalls and a warmnatural plaster throughout. A photovoltaic array provides for all the homes power needswhile a separate active solar thermal water heating system provides the hot waterneeded for domestic use, the in-floor hydronic radiant heating system, and the pool andspa.

This unique hillside property offered an opportunity to engage the house with the sitethrough the design of a 8 foot high thermal earth berm on the homes North side whichcontributes to its passive solar performance in both heating and cooling.

DeBont Residence

(Michael Lehrer, FAIA - LEHRER ARCHITECTS LA, Inc.)

Pacific Palisades - Mandeville Canyon

This home began life some 60 yearsago as a modest, typical SouthernCalifornia ranch style home set on aMandeville Canyon hilltop plateau.

It originally had a front and back.

Over time, it had grown in tiny,disjointed increments. The architectand the owners have been workingadding, subtracting, tweaking,transforming--elements of the insideand outside for the past 15 years.


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Today the house is an object in the landscape with a 360-degree engagement of thelandscape and view shed.

Each move made opportunistically opens the house and garden to one another, alwaysmining the sky and the landscape for natural light, view, and seamless indoor-outdoorliving. It is experienced by multiple processions around-to-and-through the house,continuously engaging art, landscape, furnishing, planting, through a series of indoor andoutdoor places.

It is about Southern California as a good life.

Chautauqua Residence

(William Hefner, AIA - William Hefner Architect, Inc.)

The residence, on a double lot on upperChautauqua Road in the Pacific Palisadesenjoys views overlooking Will Rogers State

Park and West Los Angeles to the South. Thedesign wraps around an infinity edgeswimming pool and spa located in the centerof the back yard. Secondary bedroomspopulate a linear street facade. On theinterior, a great room acts as an internalcourtyard and ties the various rooms togetherwith a bridge above.

The principal materials on the exterior are zinccladding and large movable glass andaluminum doors and windows. A series of

covered patios on the first and second floorscreate useable outdoor spaces offering viewsof the canyon.

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