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1016, Concha Street, Altadena, CA, United States
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Ames Residence
1016, Concha Street, Altadena, CA, United States
In the 80s, Susan Ames
played with the first all-female Goth band Typhoon
as well as the punk band Holy Sisters of
the Gaga Dada. She went on to earn a doctorate in neuroscience and
currently researches the regulatory influence of associative memory
(unconscious influences) at the University of Southern California. Susan still performs and regularly
attends the Coachella Music Festival that her musician husband organizes.
Alternative music and
scientific research feature big in this family of two. We were asked to breath
new life into their blocky
post-World War III concrete house by giving due to this duality of influences
in their lives.
So we did, by
exploding the roof and the tiny spaces of the bungalow and dropping an asymmetrical
mezzanine over the front portion of the house. An attached one-car garage is
extended forward and re-dedicated as a study. Angled and offset from the
existing house, the new front wall laps over the living area to introduce a new
entry foyer. It continues to wrap into the curve of an ascending spiral stair,
leading to a new mezzanine dedicated for music. A diagonally oriented butterfly roof alights above and
hovers over the defunct masonry chimney separated by a band of glass. Rainwater
is conducted from the roof to a basin and a concrete channel that meanders to
its eventual dispersal in the garden.
Glass, cellular
polycarbonate, perforated aluminum and corrugated steel compose the new
envelope, riffing off of the solid rigidity of the original concrete block.
Adhering mostly to the original footprint and with a focus on reforming the
volumes, this dwelling forces gravity and loftiness into a happy coexistence.
played with the first all-female Goth band Typhoon
as well as the punk band Holy Sisters of
the Gaga Dada. She went on to earn a doctorate in neuroscience and
currently researches the regulatory influence of associative memory
(unconscious influences) at the University of Southern California. Susan still performs and regularly
attends the Coachella Music Festival that her musician husband organizes.
Alternative music and
scientific research feature big in this family of two. We were asked to breath
new life into their blocky
post-World War III concrete house by giving due to this duality of influences
in their lives.
So we did, by
exploding the roof and the tiny spaces of the bungalow and dropping an asymmetrical
mezzanine over the front portion of the house. An attached one-car garage is
extended forward and re-dedicated as a study. Angled and offset from the
existing house, the new front wall laps over the living area to introduce a new
entry foyer. It continues to wrap into the curve of an ascending spiral stair,
leading to a new mezzanine dedicated for music. A diagonally oriented butterfly roof alights above and
hovers over the defunct masonry chimney separated by a band of glass. Rainwater
is conducted from the roof to a basin and a concrete channel that meanders to
its eventual dispersal in the garden.
Glass, cellular
polycarbonate, perforated aluminum and corrugated steel compose the new
envelope, riffing off of the solid rigidity of the original concrete block.
Adhering mostly to the original footprint and with a focus on reforming the
volumes, this dwelling forces gravity and loftiness into a happy coexistence.
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