Laurel Canyon House
The Laurel Canyon House sits on a winding street in the wooded Hollywood Hills, where cut-and-fill lots form miniature pads from which houses perch and crane for city views. The form of the house reflects the confluence of this hillside morphology. The house’s ground level acts like a plinth, holding the most public living spaces, where precious views are captured through focused window cuts. This public base holds the most private spaces above, a second level Master Bedroom suite, where walls of glass and sculptural floating beams articulate an upstairs terrace and frame larger, fuller views beyond. At its most public, the house encloses protectively. At its most private, it opens to invite the city in.