Taking advantage of Los Angeles zoning that allows two single-family residences to sit on one parcel of real estate, 2017 Vanguard firm FreelandBuck designed Second House to take cues from the Culver City property’s original structure, while also completely departing from it. The angular 1,500-square-foot dwelling presents a study in how to shrewdly carve out living space on a stingy footprint.
The owners, a couple, asked for a small, low-maintenance house with outdoor areas and a generous master suite, says L.A.-based principal David Freeland. (He met New York–based principal Brennan Buck in graduate school at UCLA.) The clients also wanted the design to shield them from neighbors on either side as well as from the original house, which will be leased to tenants. That 1938 structure is set back from the street on its narrow lot, making a small site even smaller, and it features a hybrid roof design, with steep gables and complex pitched surfaces.
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