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Mugu House in California
Seaside Property in CA, United States ? design By Stéphane Malka Architecture
Jan 20, 2017
Mugu House
Design: Stéphane Malka Architecture
Location: Malibu, California, USA
Mugu House – Inhabit the Hills

Located at Mugu Point California, fifty miles away from Los Angeles where Malka Architecture just opened its new studio, the Mugu House is nested on Malibu?s Hills porosities.

The project benefits from the existing topography of the actual site ; the result is a zero impact on the surrounding nature, an ecological project in immersion with the rock, its vegetation and its thermal variations.

The Mugu House embodies a return to the roots of architecture in connection with the natural elements, a dialogue with the mountain and its troglodyte architecture.
This lightweight architecture is constituted of prefabricated alveolar concrete made from primary materials available locally such as sand and aggregates, with a very low cement content (7%), which reduces 28 times the CO2 emissions and the ecological footprint in comparison with the traditional concrete.

Easy to build and to remove, this site allows a quick, inexpensive, clean, sustainable and waste-free installation, with manual installation.

Built with very few partitions, the rock determines the geometry of the interior spaces.

The flank of the uninterrupted mountain extends inside each room, reminding us that we are the gu...