Oxford Triangle Residence Offers a New Spin on a Venice Beach House

If you have been to Venice Beach front, California, the Oxford Triangle home is not your standard beach front household sighting. The exclusive home sits on a slim triangular whole lot by a historic electric powered streetcar line in use from 1905 to the mid 1950s. Architect Matthew Royce, of M Royce Architecture, designed the residence for himself with inspiration drawn from a excursion to Iran in 2013. Grand villas in the city of Kashan housed basements that stuffed with snow just about every wintertime, which grew to become their refrigerator in the summer time. A return prevent in London extra a lot more inspiration – row properties with gaps involving the dwelling and sidewalk making it possible for light-weight into the basements beneath.



Royce translated the inspiration into the new residence by including place concerning the public sidewalk and the construction. Almost everything constructed previously mentioned ground was to maximize the limited footprint, and down below ground is the place the spaces reward from all-natural mild and ocean breezes filtering down.

The residence is created employing industrial products, like board-formed concrete, glass, and raw copper, rather the contrast from the surrounding 20th century Craftsman bungalows, mid-century ranches, and write-up-war stucco houses.

The raw resources on the exterior will gradually patina and age about time producing an ever-evolving glance. Comparable resources are applied on the two-story guesthouse with the exception of a hydraulic airplane hangar doorway that opens the area up to the outside the house.

The floor ground, which homes the kitchen area, living area, and deck, sinks a few feet down below floor so the foliage wrapped all over the perimeter of the home can generate privacy when the spaces are opened up. An infinity pool operates suitable together with the house and then wraps all-around making it uncomplicated to obtain.

With the sliding glass walls opened up, the kitchen extends to a patio and overlooks the elongated swimming pool.

Photos by Sam Frost and Michael Reynolds.