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Courtyard Home
Beverly Hills, California
- Architecture/
- Landscape Architecture/
- Interior Design
This home, designed as a series of interior pavilions situated around a multi-story courtyard, creates rich internal landscape with views that focus inward. Expansive sliding glass walls create a continuous landscape through the house, pulling the garden in and extending the living spaces outward. A large floating roof unifies the pavilions and captures parts of garden as interior living space to enhance the feeling of living in the landscape.
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The height constraints of this home’s lot led to a design that captures space beneath the level pad. The courtyard becomes an atrium that organizes the home and allows nature and daylight deep inside.
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