For his own residence, California architect Dan Brunn has designed a long, slender home that stretches over a brook on a wooded property in Los Angeles.

The Bridge House is located on a one-third acre property in the city's Brookside neighbourhood, which dates to the 1920s.
Architect Dan Brunn, who leads an eponymous LA studio, designed the 4,500-square-foot (418-square-metre) house to serve as his full-time residence and a "demonstration of innovative systems and forward-thinking processes".
Rectangular in plan, the home is 20 feet wide by 210 feet long (six by 64 metres). A large portion of the dwelling, measuring 65 feet (20 metres) in length, bridges a natural stream, giving the house its name.

By building over the water, Brunn was able to create a spacious home that treads more lightly on the earth. "The bridge aspect allows for less land to be disturbed, which means less impact on its immediate physical environment," the architect said in a project description.

Brunn's design was influenced by a visit to the Breakers mansion in Rhode Island ? a late 19th-century building designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt for the Vanderbilt family.
Brunn was particularly taken with the estate's elongated motor court. It helped spark the idea to eliminate the traditional front and rear yards on a suburban property, and to reorient the house so it stretches from front to back rather than across the site.

Brunn also took cues from early modern architects su...