San Vicente Boulevard in Santa Monica, California, has long served as a haven for runners who glide along the street, shaded by leafy coral trees and cooled by an ocean breeze. In its design of the San Vicente Residence, Pugh + Scarpa aspired to create a similar sense of movement.
The project was commissioned by a couple who owns a home-based recording business. The structure is composed of two stacked, irregularly shaped parallelograms topped by an undulating roof that provides optimal acoustics inside. The upper volume boldly cantilevers out over the street and is separated from the lower volume by a band of clerestory windows, producing a floating effect. Four ribbons of perforated metal twist around the upper level; it appears they are pinched and squeezed as if they were made of fabric, not metal.
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