Clean & Minimalist Openhouse Hollywood Hills

Clean & Minimalist Openhouse Hollywood Hills -

Clean Minimalistic Openhouse — Clean Openhouse minimalist

The Openhouse was designed by XTEN architecture. It is integrated in a narrow field and steep slope in the Hollywood Hills. The house is both integrated into the landscape and open to the city below. Retaining walls are configured to expand the first level living area in the landscape and create garden terraces on the second level. The front, side and rear facades of the house slip away, opening the interior gardens, views and landscape of the hill.

Glass, in various interpretations, is the material of the primary housing wall. There are forty-four sliding glass panels destined to disappear into hidden pockets and allow stunning views and access to outdoor terraces and gardens. There are also walls fixed glass, mirror glass walls, and light gray mirror glass panels that give light to interior spaces.

The glass walls are visually weighted against sculptural solids in the house made in stone, dark stained oak and plaster. The use of quartz flooring throughout the house, decks and terraces continues the indoor-outdoor materiality. Building finishes are few, but applied in a multiplicity of ways all throughout the project, favoring the experience of open space continuously from the inside to the outside. With all the glass walls completely open the house becomes a platform open to gardens hills and cinematic views of Los Angeles.