The Wave House, Venice Home, Californian Residential Development, USA Architecture Images
The Wave House in California
Venice Property: American Residential Building ? design by Mario Romano, CA, USA
May 1, 2017
The Wave House
Location: Venice, California, USA
Architect: Mario Romano
The Wave House

Hundreds of unique pieces assembled into a self-organizing form.   Similar to the way a tailor crafts a suit of clothing, the aluminum skin was digitally rolled and unrolled, then cut by a CNC machine and finally attached to a complex metal substructure made of straight lines, leaving a space between the white aluminum panels of exactly one and three/fourth inches. The shadow lines flow continuously nearly 60 feet starting from the top of the parapet, down the roof, until finally cascading to the bottom of the front wall.
The Skin

A Self-Organizing Form Constructing the organically-shaped facades of The Wave House required trust in the power of calculus and the development of an entirely new architectural vernacular as Romano set forth to manifest his vision for the home.

Cascading Aluminum

The home’s aluminum skin is skillfully orchestrated, emulating the beauty of nature’s own eloquent geometry. Appearing as if one massive undulating facade, the painted aluminum flows from over two stories high until finally arriving to touch the ground in one single flow.

“I wanted to unite the sky and the earth in a single move, an architectural element that no o...