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Foothill Residence by Arxis Design Studio

Beverly Hills, California

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March 16, 2012
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Arxis Design Studio

This spare, contemporary house in Beverly Hills—designed by Leonardo Umansky of Arxis Design Studio—stands out in a residential community renowned for traditional design and oversized statement structures. The clients, a mathematician and an artist, own a comprehensive operetta collection and required specific storage for it. Umansky designed 2,600 feet of built-in shelving for such odd-sized items as posters, vinyl records, sheet music, CDs, and cassettes.

Design concept and solution: The house is based on a centralized plan whose perimeter is fragmented by a media wall. Rather than concentrate the collection into one room, like an archive, the architects distributed the collection throughout the house based on item type. Each programmatic element within the house contains specific items of the collection. The media walls are organized into niche, partition, and freestanding walls.

The central space is a double height rectilinear volume that is directly off the entry and connects to all other rooms. From here one can get a visual sense of the collection’s vastness and extension into other areas of the house. On the opposing long ends of the central volume are two staircases. The front stair is off to the side and the rear staircase is on axis with the front entry, helping to guide the eye upward and diagonally through the central volume and to the rest of the collection.

People

Owner:

Witheld

 

Location:

614 North Foothill road Beverly Hills California 90210

 

Completion Date:

January 2010

 

Gross square footage:

8,659 square feet.  1st and 2nd floor are 6,727 and basement and garage are 1,932

 

Total construction cost:

Withheld by owner

 

Architect:

Arxis Design Studio
5883 Blackwelder Street
Culver City, CA 90232
T 310.559.6212
arxis-work.com

 

Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit:

Architect of record:

Arxis Design Studio (Design firm)

 

Interior designer:

Arxis Design Studio (Design firm)

 

Engineer(s):

Structural Engineer: Joseph Perazzelli

 

Consultant(s):

Landscape:
Arxis Design Studio (Design firm)

Lighting:
Arxis Design Studio (Design firm)

Acoustical:
Arxis Design Studio (Design firm)

Other:
Arxis Design Studio (Design firm)

 

General contractor:

Fort Hill Construction

 

Photographer(s):

Cameron Carothers cell:818.517.1966

 

CAD system, project management, or other software used:

Power Cad on Apple.

 

Products

Structural system

Steel and wood framing with subterranean parking

 

Exterior cladding

Redwood siding, Ledger stone and steel trowel plaster with integral color

Masonry:
Ledger stone.

Wood:
Siding is redwood and the interior floors are white oak

 

Roofing

Built-up roofing: Torch down roof

 

Windows

Wood frame: All the windows were custom made for the house.
VGDF.

 

Glazing

Glass: Low E

Skylights: Sun Valley skylights

 

Doors

Entrances: Steel frame with wood clad pivot door

Wood doors: VGDF

Sliding doors: custom

 

Hardware

Locksets: All Baldwin

 

Interior finishes

Cabinetwork and custom woodwork: Design Made Real

Paints and stains: Willburn

Floor and wall tile: Travertine (18x36)

 

Furnishings

All free standing furniture by owner.  All built in furniture was designed by Arxis Design Studio

 

Lighting

Lighting system was Lutron

Downlights:
MR16

 

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