The Los Angeles Design Group added three structures to a mid-century home in Los Angeles' Highland Park to create a guest house, studio and exhibition spaces for two visual artists.
The US studio designed the expansion of the artists' existing residence to create a flexible live-work complex called House in Los Angeles 1.
Above: The LADG extended the plot of a mid-century house. Top image: the complex is home to two artists. Photos by Saam Gabbay
In addition to the original home, it now has a guest house that also acts as studio space, and structures for exhibitions and events open to a courtyard.
"Our project defies and reorganises some of the architectural tropes associated with LA suburbia," said The LADG co-founder Claus Benjamin Freyinger. Materials were chosen to complement the existing property. Photo by Saam Gabbay.
"It's not a single house with a unified programme, meant to contain a sleeping family at night, who commute off to work and school lives in the morning," he added.
"It's a collection of buildings that integrates work, living, and communal activities around the livelihoods of two artists."
The covered garage can also be used as an events space
The LADG designed the extension to create a seamless space between indoors and outdoors. To achieve this it designed each building so that the layout of the walls does not meet the roofline above. Instead, walls extend beyond to mark areas outside and roofs project to cover nooks.
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