A car sunroof influenced the skylight that tops this small angular office, which design-and-build practice Knowhow Shop has completed to accompany its woodshop in Los Angeles.
Measuring 154 square feet (14 square metres), the Lighthouse structure is erected in the outdoor fabrication yard and carpark that adjoins Knowhow Shop's facilities in the city's Highland Park neighbourhood.

Kagan Taylor and Justin Rice ? who founded the studio in 2010 ? approached the project as an opportunity to experiment with their craft. "It was a labour of love," they told Dezeen.
The duo drew on techniques used for other small-scale works, like furniture design, boatbuilding, car manufacturing and film sets.

"Lighthouse is a micro-building designed and built like a piece of furniture," said the studio in a project description. "We discarded typical details and assemblies in favour of new methods of construction from the ground up," the team added. "The result is a project designed to test our craft in materials and our perceptions of space."

All elements were fabricated on site, including the faceted white walls, which are made up of irregularly shaped panels.

Each angular piece was cut from structural insulated panels ? a building material comprising foam insulation sandwiched between flakeboard. The exterior was then clad in matching fibreglass panels that the studio coated in a white finish typically used to protect yachts.

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