Designed by Mutuus Studio, the Hollywood Hills Residence was built on a sloping property in Los Angeles, dotted with bushes, cacti and oaks. From the architects’ account, the organization of the construction is inspired by the Irish travels of their clients. Recalling, therefore, the visits to the castles, it is accessed from above, through a wooden and steel bridge that crosses the garden, with the intention of creating the feeling of a “protective fortress”.
Through the threshold and down the stairs, we are greeted in a large room, with an entirely glass wall, projected towards the surrounding landscape. Upstairs, however, a revolving window opens onto the east terrace and a secondary dining room and allows visitors to zigzag down to the pool and guest rooms downstairs.
As a background element for a rich and eclectic furnishing, the material palette is kept elementary: the floors and steps of the stairs are in old smoked oak, the walls are in concrete cast on site or covered with stained cedar, as well as the accents of blackened steel and copper.
- Project:
- Hollywood Hills Residence
- Architecture studio:
- Mutuus Studio
- Design team:
- Kristen Becker, Renee Boone, CJ Christensen
- Interior design:
- Kristen Becker, Mia Sara, Jerry Sarapochiello
- Builder:
- Dow Built (Jim Dow, Kaija, Kela Martinez)
- Landscape design:
- Andrea Cochran
- Structural engineer:
- Labibe Structural Engineers
- Location:
- Hollywood Hills, CA